She noticed the movement of the other portiere and asked Newman who had been entertaining him.
"The British female!" said Newman.

"An old lady in a black dress and a cap, who curtsies up and down, and expresses herself ever so well." "An old lady who curtsies and expresses herself ?...

Ah, you mean poor Mrs.Bread.I happen to know that you have made a conquest of her." "Mrs.Cake, she ought to be called," said Newman.

"She is very sweet.
She is a delicious old woman." Madame de Cintre looked at him a moment.

"What can she have said to you?
She is an excellent creature, but we think her rather dismal." "I suppose," Newman answered presently, "that I like her because she has lived near you so long.