A band of eleven young men had arrived and were laughing loudly in the anteroom and crowding to the drawing room.

They had just come from the ball at the Ministry of the Interior and were in evening dress and wore various unknown orders.

Nana was annoyed at this riotous entry, called to the waiters who still remained in the kitchen and ordered them to throw these individuals out of doors.

She vowed that she had never seen any of them before.

Fauchery, Labordette, Daguenet and the rest of the men had all come forward in order to enforce respectful behavior toward their hostess.