In the winter he has an hotel at Mentone," he was looking up the train while he chatted happily.
"There is a train every ten minutes," he said at last, "from the Gare du Nord.

Or, if Madame prefers it, she could walk up from here to the Square of the Trinite and take the tramway; but it is quicker and pleasanter to go by train--unless, indeed, Madame wishes to offer herself the luxury of an automobile.

That, alas! I fear would cost Madame twenty to thirty francs." "Of course I will go by train," said Sylvia, smiling, "and I will lunch at your cousin's hotel, M.Girard." It would be quite easy to find Anna, or so she thought, for Anna would be at the Casino.

Sylvia felt painfully interested in her friend's love of gambling.

It was so strange that Anna was not ashamed of it.
And then as she drove to the great railway terminus, from which a hundred and twenty trains start daily for Lacville, it seemed to Sylvia that the whole of Paris was placarded with the name of the place she was now about to visit for the first time! On every hoarding, on every bare piece of wall, were spread large, flamboyant posters showing a garish but not unattractive landscape.