We are much obliged for your kind thought of us, but you will easily understand that the prospect of again hearing Faust , pleasant though it is to ex-managers of the Opera, can not make us forget that we have no right to occupy Box Five on the grand tier, which is the exclusive property of him of whom we spoke to you when we went through the memorandum-book with you for the last time. See Clause 98, final paragraph.

Accept, gentlemen, etc.

“Oh, those fellows are beginning to annoy me!” shouted Firmin Richard, snatching up the letter.

And that evening Box Five was sold.