The latter would assurely have to pay for Rose's bravado.
In the passage the tightly shutting door opened and closed again, and a tempest of applause was blown as far as the greenroom.

Simonne came in after her scene.
"Oh, Father Bosc HAS just scored!" she cried.

"The prince was writhing with laughter and applauded with the rest as though he had been paid to.
I say, do you know the big man sitting beside the prince in the stage box?
A handsome man, with a very sedate expression and splendid whiskers!" "It's Count Muffat," replied Fauchery.

"I know that the prince, when he was at the empress's the day before yesterday, invited him to dinner for tonight.

He'll have corrupted him afterward!" "So that's Count Muffat! We know his father-in-law, eh, Auguste ?" said Rose, addressing her remark to Mignon.