He then handed me the music I had begged him to purchase for me, and I paid him what it had cost, offering him my best thanks.

As we were just opposite the ducal box, I asked him, for the sake of saying something, whether he had engraved the portraits of their highnesses.

He answered that he had already engraved two medals, and I gave him an order for both, in gold.

He promised to let me have them, and left the box.

Henriette had not even looked at him, and that was according to all established rules, as I had not introduced him, but the next morning he was announced as we were at dinner.