They addressed one another familiarly in these days.
"Always the same business, my sonny," declared Mignon.

"You ought to go upstairs; you would force her to follow you." "Come now, you're kind, you are!" said the journalist.

"Why don't you go upstairs yourself ?" Then as Lucy began asking for Nana's number, they besought her to make Rose come down; otherwise they would end by getting angry.
Nevertheless, Lucy and Caroline did not go up at once.

They had caught sight of Fontan strolling about with his hands in his pockets and greatly amused by the quaint expressions of the mob.

When he became aware that Nana was lying ill upstairs he affected sentiment and remarked: "The poor girl! I'll go and shake her by the hand.