After a lease of six years a woman has a right
to do so. Now, if you will only listen to me, you can do a better
thing for yourself. Your wife is to-day worth more than all the
Schontzes and Antonias of the quartier Saint-Georges. I admit the
conquest is difficult, but it is not impossible; and after all that
has happened she will make you as happy as an Orgon. In any case, you
mustn't look like a fool; come and sup to-night with Antonia."
"No, I love Aurelie too well; I won't give her any reason to complain
of me."
"Ah! my dear fellow, what a future you are preparing for yourself!"
cried Maxime.
"It is eleven o'clock; she must have returned from the Ambigu," said
Rochefide, leaving the club.
And he called out his coachman to drive at top speed to the rue de la
Bruyere.
Madame Schontz had given precise directions; monsieur could enter as
master with the fullest understanding of madame; but, warned by the
noise of monsieur's arrival, madame had so arranged that the sound of
her dressing-door closing as women's doors do close when they are
surprised, was to reach monsieur's ears.
Pages:
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553