He was already taking notes on a corner of the table.
Thanks to all the noise of the discussion, Pierre and Doctor Chassaigne, seated at some distance from the others, were now able to talk together without being heard.

"Oh! those piscinas!" said the young priest, "I have just seen them.

To think that the water should be so seldom changed! What filth it is, what a soup of microbes! What a terrible blow for the present-day mania, that rage for antiseptic precautions! How is it that some pestilence does not carry off all these poor people?
The opponents of the microbe theory must be having a good laugh--" M.Chassaigne stopped him.

"No, no, my child," said he.

"The baths may be scarcely clean, but they offer no danger.