Sometimes they don't meet for weeks.

All she wants is plenty of money.

And ain't we just dunned!" "But the Mussidans are wealthy ?" "Tremendously so, but at times there is not the value of a franc in the house.

Then Madame is like a tigress, and would sent to borrow from all her friends." "But she must feel much humiliated ?" "Not a bit; when she wants a heavy amount, she sends off to the Duke de Champdoce, and he always parts; but she doesn't mince matters with him." "It would seem as if you had known the contents of your mistress's letters ?" remarked Mascarin with a smile.
"Of course I have; I like to know what is in the letters I carry about.
She only says, 'My good friend, I want so much,' and back comes the money without a word.

Of course it is easy to see that there has been something between them." "Yes, evidently." "And when master and missus do meet they only have rows, and such rows! When the working man has had a drop too much, he beats his wife, she screams, then they kiss and make it up; but the Mussidans say things to each other in cold blood that neither can ever forgive." From the air with which Mascarin listened to these details, it almost seemed as if he had been aware of them before.
"Then," said he, "Mademoiselle Sabine is the only nice one in the house ?" "Yes, she is always gentle and considerate." "Then you think that M.de Breulh-Faverlay will be a happy man ?" "Oh, yes; but perhaps this marriage will----" but here Florestan interrupted himself and assumed an air of extreme caution.