"It was what I was going to ask you to do.

If the other young gentlemen will follow your example, I shall be obliged.

Thank you.

Thank you." Croisette, and a minute later Marie, obeyed him to the letter! I could not understand it.

I folded my arms and gave up the game in despair, and but for very shame I could have put my hands to my face and cried.
He stood in the middle under the lamp, a head taller than the tallest of us; our master.