Besides, others had met them.
Nothing else was talked about at the factory.

Risler alone suspected nothing.
"But it is your duty to tell him," declared Mademoiselle Planus.
The cashier's face assumed a grave expression.
"It is a very delicate matter.

In the first place, who knows whether he would believe me?
There are blind men so blind that--And then, by interfering between the two partners, I risk the loss of my place.

Oh! the women--the women! When I think how happy Risler might have been.
When I sent for him to come to Paris with his brother, he hadn't a sou; and to-day he is at the head of one of the first houses in Paris.

Do you suppose that he would be content with that?
Oh! no, of course not! Monsieur must marry.