I am glad, indeed, to receive his friends.

Fortunately our rooms upstairs are unlet.
Strangers are rare in Paris, at present." He called a boy from the shop, and told him to show Leigh the way to some stables near.

He then entered the house, accompanied by Patsey with her child.

Here she was received by Madame Tourrier, a plump-faced businesslike woman, and was not long in finding out that she was the real head of the establishment.
"I have got the rooms ready for you," she said.

"We were surprised, indeed, to get a letter from Simon Valles; for he is a poor correspondent, though he generally comes to stay with us for three days, once a year.