For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you no grudge for that.

Signed: Blachevelle, Famueil, Listolier, Félix Tholomyès.

Postscriptum. The dinner is paid for.

The four young women looked at each other.

Favorite was the first to break the silence.

“Well!” she exclaimed, “it’s a very pretty farce, all the same.”

“It is very droll,” said Zéphine.

“That must have been Blachevelle’s idea,” resumed Favorite. “It makes me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an adventure, indeed.”