Ah! no doubt you are engaged every day for a month.

A Rochebriant just new to Paris must be 'fete' by all the Faubourg." "No," answered Alain, simply, "I am not engaged; my range of acquaintance is more circumscribed than you suppose." "So much the better for me.

I am luckily disengaged today, which is not often the case, for I am in some request in my own set, though it is not that of the Faubourg.

Where shall we dine ?--at the Trois Freres ?" "Wherever you please.

I know no restaurant at Paris, except a very ignoble one, close by my lodging." "'Apropos', where do you lodge ?" "Rue de l'Universite, Numero -- ." "A fine street, but 'triste'.