"It's all changed.

I wanted to tell him so this morning.

He would run against the nigger! We should have a nice to-do!" "Madame did not warn me; I couldn't be aware of it," murmured Zoe.

"When Madame changes her days she will do well to tell me so that I may know.
Then the old miser is no longer due on the Tuesday ?" Between themselves they were wont thus gravely to nickname as "old miser" and "nigger" their two paying visitors, one of whom was a tradesman of economical tendencies from the Faubourg Saint-Denis, while the other was a Walachian, a mock count, whose money, paid always at the most irregular intervals, never looked as though it had been honestly come by.

Daguenet had made Nana give him the days subsequent to the old miser's visits, and as the trader had to be at home by eight o'clock in the morning, the young man would watch for his departure from Zoes kitchen and would take his place, which was still quite warm, till ten o'clock.