Nana bowed.
"Price is up," she replied.
And with that the discussion began again.

Price was an English celebrity.

Why had Vandeuvres got this jockey to come over, seeing that Gresham ordinarily rode Nana?
Besides, they were astonished to see him confiding Lusignan to this man Gresham, who, according to La Faloise, never got a place.

But all these remarks were swallowed up in jokes, contradictions and an extraordinarily noisy confusion of opinions.

In order to kill time the company once more set themselves to drain bottles of champagne.