Duncombe began to be annoyed.
"Very well," he said, "I will stay in the bar.

You can't turn me out of there, can you ?" Monsieur Albert was evasive.

He desired Monsieur Duncombe to be amused, and the people who remained in the bar--well, it was not possible to get rid of them, but they were not fitting company for him.
"There is the Cafe Mazarin," he added confidentially, "a few steps only from here--a most amusing place.

The most wonderful ladies there, too, very chic, and crowded every night! Monsieur should really try it.

The commissionaire would direct him--a few yards only." "Much obliged to you," Duncombe answered, turning on his heel.