For two days he had been loafing about the town in quest of the money and had at last made the sum up that very morning.
"The thousand francs!" he ended by declaring as he drew an envelope from his pocket.
Nana had not remembered.
"The thousand francs!" she cried.

"D'you think I'm begging alms?
Now look here, that's what I value your thousand francs at!" And snatching the envelope, she threw it full in his face.

As became a prudent Hebrew, he picked it up slowly and painfully and then looked at the young woman with a dull expression of face.

Muffat and he exchanged a despairing glance, while she put her arms akimbo in order to shout more loudly than before.
"Come now, will you soon have done insulting me?
I'm glad you've come, too, dear boy, because now you see the clearance'll be quite complete.
Now then, gee up! Out you go!" Then as they did not hurry in the least, for they were paralyzed: "D'you mean to say I'm acting like a fool, eh?
It's likely enough! But you've bored me too much! And, hang it all, I've had enough of swelldom! If I die of what I'm doing--well, it's my fancy!" They sought to calm her; they begged her to listen to reason.
"Now then, once, twice, thrice! Won't you go?
Very well! Look there! I've got company." And with a brisk movement she flung wide the bedroom door.

Whereupon in the middle of the tumbled bed the two men caught sight of Fontan.