Would not Madame be proud to get such a rich gentleman away from her rival Rose Mignon--a man, moreover, who was known in all the theaters?
"Now make haste, my dear," rejoined Nana, who perfectly understood the situation, "and tell him he pesters me." But suddenly there was a reversion of feeling.

Tomorrow she might want him.

Whereupon she laughed, winked once or twice and with a naughty little gesture cried out: "After all's said and done, if I want him the best way even now is to kick him out of doors." Zoe seemed much impressed.

Struck with a sudden admiration, she gazed at her mistress and then went and chucked Steiner out of doors without further deliberation.
Meanwhile Nana waited patiently for a second or two in order to give her time to sweep the place out, as she phrased it.

No one would ever have expected such a siege! She craned her head into the drawing room and found it empty.