Has Fritz mentioned that among Madame Fontaine's other virtues, she has paid her debts?
I'll tell you how she has paid them--as an example, young gentleman, that I am not talking at random.
Your admirable widow, sir, is great at fascinating old men; they are always falling in love with her, the idiots! A certain old man at Wurzburg--close on eighty, mind--was one of her victims.

I had a letter this morning which tells me that he was found dead in his bed, two days since, and that his nephew is the sole heir to all that he leaves behind him.

Examination of his papers has shown that _he_ paid the widow's creditors, and that he took a promissory note from her--ha! ha! ha!--a promissory note from a woman without a farthing!--in payment of the sum that he had advanced.

The poor old man would, no doubt, have destroyed the note if he had known that his end was so near.

His sudden death has transferred it to the hands of his heir.