But M.Chebe had not Delobelle's courtesy.

Instead of discreetly moving away, he took his glass and joined the others, so that the great man, unwilling to speak before him, solemnly replaced his documents in his pocket a second time, saying to Risler: "We will talk this over later." Very much later, in truth, for M.Chebe had reflected: "My son-in-law is so good-natured! If I leave him with this swindler, who knows what he may get out of him ?" And he remained on guard.

The actor was furious.

It was impossible to postpone the matter to some other day, for Risler told them that he was going the next day to spend the next month at Savigny.
"A month at Savigny!" exclaimed M.Chebe, incensed at the thought of his son-in-law escaping him.

"How about business ?" "Oh! I shall come to Paris every day with Georges.