You understand, don't you?
There are people of position who dislike uproar; they go by themselves to the Grotto, and pray there all day long, for days together, and pay good prices for their accommodation without any higgling." Madame Majeste, whom Pierre and M.de Guersaint had not noticed leaning over an account-book in which she was adding up some figures, thereupon intervened in a shrill voice: "We had a customer like that, gentlemen, who stayed here for two months last year.

She went to the Grotto, came back, went there again, took her meals, and went to bed.

And never did we have a word of complaint from her; she was always smiling, as though to say that she found everything very nice.

She paid her bill, too, without even looking at it.

Ah! one regrets people of that kind." Short, thin, very dark, and dressed in black, with a little white collar, Madame Majeste had risen to her feet; and she now began to solicit custom: "If you would like to buy a few little souvenirs of Lourdes before you leave, gentlemen, I hope that you will not forget us.