"Yes; he agreed at once." I did not know the duke, but I felt ashamed of deceiving him.
"But that is not all," continued Marguerite.
"What else is there ?" "I have been seeing about a place for Armand to stay." "In the same house ?" asked Prudence, laughing.
"No, at Point du Jour, where we had dinner, the duke and I.While he was admiring the view, I asked Mme.

Arnould (she is called Mme.

Arnould, isn't she ?) if there were any suitable rooms, and she showed me just the very thing: salon, anteroom, and bed-room, at sixty francs a month; the whole place furnished in a way to divert a hypochondriac.

I took it.

Was I right ?" I flung my arms around her neck and kissed her.
"It will be charming," she continued.