Their feeling at first when they were together was one of satisfied vanity.

People stared at them a great deal.

She was really pretty now, and her irregular but attractive features, which required the aid of all the eccentricities of the prevailing style in order to produce their full effect, adapted themselves to them so perfectly that you would have said they were invented expressly for her.

In a few moments they went away, and Madame Dobson was left alone in the box.

They had hired a small suite on the Avenue Gabriel, near the 'rond-point' of the Champs Elysees--the dream of the young women at the Le Mire establishment--two luxuriously furnished, quiet rooms, where the silence of the wealthy quarter, disturbed only by passing carriages, formed a blissful surrounding for their love.
Little by little, when she had become accustomed to her sin, she conceived the most audacious whims.