The two we chose screamed for joy, kissed us with a voluptuousness which a novice might have mistaken for love, and took us to the garden until dinner would be ready.

That garden was very large and artistically arranged to minister to the pleasures of love.

Madame Paris said to us, "Go, gentlemen, enjoy the fresh air with perfect security in every way; my house is the temple of peace and of good health." The girl I had chosen was something like Coraline, and that made me find her delightful.

But in the midst of our amorous occupations we were called to dinner.

We were well served, and the dinner had given us new strength, when our single-eyed hostess came, watch in hand, to announce that time was up.