Pradel said to me to-day, before rehearsal 'My dear little Nanteuil, there has never been anything between us.

It is ridiculous.' He was extremely decorous, but he gave me to understand that we were in a false position with regard to one another, which could not go on indefinitely.

You must know that Pradel has established a rule.

Formerly he used to pick and choose among his _pensionnaires_.

He had favourites, and that caused an outcry.