At the different entrances men were crowding in order to talk to ladies who remained seated.

They stood there motionless for a few seconds, craning forward somewhat and displaying the great white bosoms of their shirt fronts.
"We count on you next Tuesday," said the countess to La Faloise, and she invited Fauchery, who bowed.
Not a word was said of the play; Nana's name was not once mentioned.

The count was so glacially dignified that he might have been supposed to be taking part at a sitting of the legislature.

In order to explain their presence that evening he remarked simply that his father-in-law was fond of the theater.

The door of the box must have remained open, for the Marquis de Chouard, who had gone out in order to leave his seat to the visitors, was back again.