Or else Caroline, who arose before Adolphe, may have seen his greatcoat thrown wrong side out across a chair; the edge of a little perfumed paper, just peeping out of the side-pocket, may have attracted her by its whiteness, like a ray of the sun entering a dark room through a crack in the window:  or else, while taking Adolphe in her arms and feeling his pocket, she may have caused the note to crackle:  or else she may have been informed of the state of things by a foreign odor that she has long noticed upon him, and may have read these lines: 

“Ungraitfull wun, wot du yu supoz I no About Hipolite.  Kum, and yu shal se whether I Love yu.”

Or this: 

“Yesterday, love, you made me wait for you:  what will it be to-morrow?”

Or this: 

“The women who love you, my dear sir, are very unhappy in hating you so, when you are not with them:  take care, for the hatred which exists during your absence, may possibly encroach upon the hours you spend in their company.”

Or this: 

“You traitorous Chodoreille, what were you doing yesterday on the boulevard with a woman hanging on your arm?  If it was your wife, accept my compliments of condolence upon her absent charms:  she has doubtless deposited them at the pawnbroker’s, and the ticket to redeem them with is lost.”

Four notes emanating from the grisette, the lady, the pretentious woman in middle life, and the actress, among whom Adolphe has chosen his belle (according to the Fischtaminellian vocabulary).

Or else Caroline, taken veiled by Ferdinand to Ranelagh Garden, sees with her own eyes Adolphe abandoning himself furiously to the polka, holding one of the ladies of honor to Queen Pomare in his arms; or else, again, Adolphe has for the seventh time, made a mistake in the name, and called his wife Juliette, Charlotte or Lisa:  or, a grocer or restaurateur sends to the house, during Adolphe’s absence, certain damning bills which fall into Caroline’s hands.

PAPERS RELATING TO CHAUMONTEL’S AFFAIR.

(Private Tables Served.)

M. Adolphe to Perrault,

To 1 Pate de Foie Gras delivered at Madame
     Schontz’s, the 6th of January, fr. 22.50
Six bottle of assorted wines, 70.00
To one special breakfast delivered at Congress
     Hotel, the 11th of February, at No. 21——­
     Stipulated price, 100.00
          
                                                ______

Total, Francs, 192.50

Caroline examines the dates and remembers them as appointments made for business connected with Chaumontel’s affair.  Adolphe had designated the sixth of January as the day fixed for a meeting at which the creditors in Chaumontel’s affair were to receive the sums due them.  On the eleventh of February he had an appointment with the notary, in order to sign a receipt relative to Chaumontel’s affair.