Mme.
de Lorcy led them into her _salon_, where they talked on indifferent subjects.

Antoinette was waiting for M.Langis's departure to broach the subject that she had at heart.

At the end of twenty minutes, he rose, but immediately reseated himself.

A door had just opened, giving admittance to Count Abel Larinski.
At the unexpected apparition of Samuel Brohl, the two women changed colour; the one flushed from the effort that she made to dissimulate her vexation, the other turned pale from emotion.

Samuel Brohl crossed the _salon_ with deliberate step, without appearing to recognise the person who was with Mme.