You accept a couple of hundred louis; this debt you forget for two or three years.

At the end of that rather long term you bethink you of paying.

What do they do?
They hand you back your note of hand torn up, with all the air of being very glad to have served you.

Then, after all, you turn your back on an undertaking in which they have embarked their whole fortunes: an affair of a couple of millions is a trifle unworthy of the attention of a philosopher like you....

But that is not all.