Par exemple ! ' Indeed !', ' Oh no, you don't

12. souvent femme varie, 'woman is fickle.' An allusion to the couplet written by Francis I. on a pane of glass in his castle at Chambord :

Souvent femme varie, Bien fol est qui s'y fie.

22. Celle .... habiter, ' The one that you are going to live in.

37. 2. A aucun prix, * On no considération. ' 4. chère petite ! * you dear girl ! '

10. C'est que . . • deux mois, ' But, you see . . . two months.' 14. Que .... voulu, ' How good you are to have been so kind

as to.' Compare voulez-vous bien le faire * will you be so

kind as to do it ?' 20. Comme ça ... . connaître, ' In that way we shall know

it.' This is ail very cleverly done by Caboussat, who

wishes to keep his ignorance a secret.