While she was here, she used a bedroom which belongs to her son--a mere 'chambre de garcon'-- and for the rest, saw whatever friends she chose to see only at the 'cafe,' where she breakfasted and dined.

She has just finished a romance, we hear, and took fifty-two nights to write it.

She writes only at night.
People call her Madame Sand.

There seems to be no other name for her in society or letters.
Now listen.

Alexandre Dumas _does_ write his own books, that's a fact.
You know I always maintained it, through the odour of Dumas in the books, but people swore the contrary with great foolish oaths worth nothing.