Foucarmont was carried off.
"Well, where's Nana gone to ?" asked Vandeuvres.
Yes, she had certainly flown away somewhere on leaving the table.

The company suddenly recollected her, and everybody asked for her.

Steiner, who for some seconds had been uneasy on her account, asked Vandeuvres about the old gentleman, for he, too, had disappeared.

But the count reassured him--he had just brought the old gentleman back.

He was a stranger, whose name it was useless to mention.