Nana had disappeared, but nobody fretted about her absence.

They did without her excellently well, and everybody helped himself and rummaged in the drawers of the sideboard in search of teaspoons, which were lacking.

Several groups were formed; people separated during supper rejoined each other, and there was an interchange of glances, of meaning laughter and of phrases which summed up recent situations.
"Ought not Monsieur Fauchery to come and lunch with us one of these days, Auguste ?" said Rose Mignon.
Mignon, who was toying with his watch chain, eyed the journalist for a second or two with his severe glance.

Rose was out of her senses.

As became a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
In return for a notice, well and good, but afterward, decidedly not.
Nevertheless, as he was fully aware of his wife's wrongheadedness and as he made it a rule to wink paternally at a folly now and again, when such was necessary, he answered amiably enough: "Certainly, I shall be most happy.