But she did not attend and said: "I'll take you along with me.

We'll have dinner together, and afterward you shall escort me to the Varietes.

I don't go on before half-past nine." Good old Labordette, how lucky it was he had come! He was a fellow who never asked for any favors.

He was only the friend of the women, whose little bits of business he arranged for them.

Thus on his way in he had dismissed the creditors in the anteroom.