Mademoiselle, I kiss your hands." He turned quickly when he reached the door, and caught Flore in the act of making a menacing gesture at his uncle.
"Uncle," he said, "if you wish to go with me, I will meet you at your door in ten minutes: I am now going to see Monsieur Hochon.

If you and I do not take that walk, I shall take upon myself to make some others walk." So saying, he went away, and crossed the place Saint-Jean to the Hochons.
Every one can imagine the scenes which the revelations made by Philippe to Monsieur Hochon had brought about within that family.

At nine o'clock, old Monsieur Heron, the notary, presented himself with a bundle of papers, and found a fire in the hall which the old miser, contrary to all his habits, had ordered to be lighted.

Madame Hochon, already dressed at this unusual hour, was sitting in her armchair at the corner of the fireplace.

The two grandsons, warned the night before by Adolphine that a storm was gathering about their heads, had been ordered to stay in the house.