If you don't succeed I shall lose my place, and I must make a living.

You are a curious kind of innocent still, my dear colleague." Dutocq.

"Well, you needn't make the lithograph till success is proved." Bixiou.

"Why don't you come out and tell me the whole truth ?" Dutocq.

"I must first see how the land lays in the bureau; we will talk about it later" [goes off].
Bixiou [alone in the corridor].