Then ensued a conversation about the young people, during which all the ladies waxed very tender.

Nana described her own great happiness.

Her baby, the little Louis, she said, was now at the house of her aunt, who brought him round to her every morning at eleven o'clock, when she would take him into her bed, where he played with her griffon dog Lulu.

It was enough to make one die of laughing to see them both burying themselves under the clothes at the bottom of the bed.

The company had no idea how cunning Louiset had already become.
"Oh, yesterday I did just pass a day!" said Rose Mignon in her turn.
"Just imagine, I went to fetch Charles and Henry at their boarding school, and I had positively to take them to the theater at night.