It would be a very big sum that would tempt _la belle Louise_ to be faithful for a long period.

If your employers really desire to punish him, and they are not in want of money, I should say do not let them interfere.

She will then _nibble-nibble_ at what he has got like a mouse into a store of good things.

Then presently that store will be all gone, and then she will give him up, and he, the man, will go out and shoot himself, and she will pick up somebody else, and will begin to nibble-nibble just as before.

As I say, there will be somebody else, and somebody else, right up to the end of the chapter.