In the meantime, as midnight was striking, they had to begin thinking of finding a bed.

And Satin, deeming it unwise to let the plain-clothes men into her secrets, ended by taking Nana to a woman who kept a little hotel in the Rue de Laval.

Here they were assigned a narrow room on the first floor, the window of which opened on the courtyard.

Satin remarked: "I should gladly have gone to Mme Robert's.

There's always a corner there for me.