But that evening she was too much agitated and looked at things without seeing them.

When all was said and done, it bored her to think she was not free.

An obscure revolt raged within her, and amid it all she felt a wild desire to do something foolish.

It was a great thing gained, forsooth, to be mistress of men of position! She had been devouring the prince's substance and Steiner's, too, with her childish caprices, and yet she had no notion where her money went.

Even at this time of day her flat in the Boulevard Haussmann was not entirely furnished.