Oh, it would teach her to pick filthy things like that out of the gutter! When Madame shut herself up in her room in the afternoon Zoe heard her sobbing.

In the evening she suddenly asked for her carriage and had herself driven to Laure's.

It had occurred to her that she would find Satin at the table d'hote in the Rue des Martyrs.

She was not going there for the sake of seeing her again but in order to catch her one in the face! As a matter of fact Satin was dining at a little table with Mme Robert.

Seeing Nana, she began to laugh, but the former, though wounded to the quick, did not make a scene.