But it is more than eleven years now since he has been trying to restore the reason of a daughter of one of his friends, Mademoiselle Lydie de la Peyrade.

She has the best advice, I can tell you; the very first doctors in Paris; only this morning they had a consultation.

But so far nothing has cured her; and they have to watch her pretty close; for sometimes she gets up and walks at night--" "Mademoiselle Lydie de la Peyrade!" exclaimed Cerizet; "are you sure of the name ?" "I've heard Madame Katte, her nurse, who also does the cooking, call her so a thousand times, monsieur; though, generally, neither Monsieur Bruneau, the valet, nor Madame Katte say much.

It's like talking to the wall to try and get any information out of them.

We have been porters here these twenty years and we've never found out anything about Monsieur du Portail yet.