He will keep his own table and have company to dinner.

That is what is ruining him.

He comes sometimes to me, not for the dinner nor the company, but for tennis, which he finds better in my faubourg than in town.

His trouble comes from the table, and I tell you frankly that you must regulate his expenses or they will become very onerous to you.

I am ashamed of them and have told him so a hundred times, more than if he had been my own brother.