Your daughter will be very happy to know that you are pleased." Their talk, however, was now interrupted by a servant girl bringing the two cups of chocolate with a couple of rolls on a metal tray covered with a napkin.

She left the door open as she entered the room, so that a glimpse was obtained of some portion of the passage.

"Ah! they are already doing my neighbour's room!" exclaimed M.de Guersaint.

"He is a married man, isn't he?
His wife is with him ?" The servant looked astonished.

"Oh, no," she replied, "he is quite alone!" "Quite alone?
Why, I heard people talking in his room this morning." "You must be mistaken, monsieur," said the servant; "he has just gone out after giving orders that his room was to be tidied up at once." And then, while taking the cups of chocolate off the tray and placing them on the table, she continued: "Oh! he is a very respectable gentleman.