Mignon assured them that there was no need to hurry; it would take twenty minutes to set up the scenery for the third act.

But the two cousins, having drunk their beer, wanted to go up into the theater again; the cold was making itself felt.
Then Mignon remained alone with Steiner, put his elbows on the table and spoke to him at close quarters.
"It's an understood thing, eh?
We are to go to her house, and I'm to introduce you.

You know the thing's quite between ourselves--my wife needn't know." Once more in their places, Fauchery and La Faloise noticed a pretty, quietly dressed woman in the second tier of boxes.

She was with a serious-looking gentleman, a chief clerk at the office of the Ministry of the Interior, whom La Faloise knew, having met him at the Muffats'.
As to Fauchery, he was under the impression that her name was Madame Robert, a lady of honorable repute who had a lover, only one, and that always a person of respectability.
But they had to turn round, for Daguenet was smiling at them.

Now that Nana had had a success he no longer hid himself: indeed, he had just been scoring triumphs in the passages.