She burst out laughing and gave vent to various expressions of surprise.

It struck her as so queer, and yet she was a little shocked by it, for she was really quite the philistine outside the pale of her own habits.

So she went back to Laure's and fed there when Fontan was dining out.

She derived much amusement from the stories and the amours and the jealousies which inflamed the female customers without hindering their appetites in the slightest degree.

Nevertheless, she still was not quite in it, as she herself phrased it.