We'll settle up tonight--there!" Straightway Nana rebelled.

She could not help shouting: "Come, I say, it's you who've run through my ten thousand francs.

It's a dirty trick, I tell you!" But he did not stop to discuss matters further, for he dealt her a random box on the ear across the table, remarking as he did so: "Let's have that again!" She let him have it again despite his blow.

Whereupon he fell upon her and kicked and cuffed her heartily.

Soon he had reduced her to such a state that she ended, as her wont was, by undressing and going to bed in a flood of tears.
He was out of breath and was going to bed, in his turn, when he noticed the letter he had written to Georges lying on the table.