He talked morality.

The aristocratic classes ought to set a good example.
Fauchery smiled and shook hands with Vandeuvres.

He did not wait for him and took his departure immediately, for he was due at his newspaper office.
"At Nana's at midnight, eh ?" La Faloise retired too.

Steiner had made his bow to the countess.

Other men followed them, and the same phrase went round--"At midnight, at Nana's"-- as they went to get their overcoats in the anteroom.