"Possibly." Bixiou [looking fixedly at him].

"Your diamond pin is loose, it is coming out.

Well, you may know all that, but you don't know the human heart; you have gone no further in the geography and history of that organ than you have in the environs of the city of Paris." Poiret [to Vimeux].

"Environs of Paris?
I thought they were talking of Monsieur Rabourdin." Bixiou.

"About that bet?
Does the entire bureau Rabourdin bet against me ?" All.