However this may be, the future arrived in due time.

Twenty days later Raoul's notes were protested, but Florine obtained from the Court of commerce an extension of twenty-five days in which to meet them.

Thus pressed, Raoul looked into his affairs and asked for the accounts, and it then appeared that the receipts of the newspaper covered only two-thirds of the expenses, while the subscriptions were rapidly dwindling.

The great man now grew anxious and gloomy, but to Florine only, in whom he confided.

She advised him to borrow money on unwritten plays, and write than at once, giving a lien on his work.