Honest people, or at least people who call themselves honest, are my game.

These are the ones who can be made to pay up." Tantaine shuddered; he remembered that Mascarin had made use of the same expression, and at once surmised that Toto must have had an occasional ear to the keyhole.
"But," objected Polyte, "honest people have no occasion to pay up." Toto struck his glass so heavily on the table that it flew to shivers.
"Will you let me speak ?" said he.
"Go on, go on, my boy," returned his friend.
"Well, when I'm hard up for cash, I go into the Champs Elysees, and take a seat on one of the benches.

From there I keep an eye on the cabs and see who gets out of them.

If a respectable woman does so, I am sure of my bird." "Do you think you know a respectable woman when you see her ?" "I should think that I did.

Well, when a respectable woman gets out of a cab where she ought not to have been, she looks about her on all sides, first to the right and then to the left, settles her veil, and, as soon as she is sure that no one is watching her, sets off as if old Nick was behind her." "Well, what do you do then ?" "Why, I take the number of the cab, and follow the lady home.