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In Therese's boudoir are assembled four people, Therese, her husband, her brother Zino, and Edgar, -- Edgar, who on the previous day, to the great surprise of his relatives in Paris, was persuaded to transfer himself from the Hotel Bouillemont, whither he had gone upon his arrival, to the Avenue Villiers and the shelter of his brother's hospitable roof.
Therese, exhausted, more breathless than usual, is lying on a lounge, wrapped in a thick white coverlet, shivering, coughing, feverish, with every symptom of a violent cold, and disputing vehemently with her husband as to whether, as he maintains, she caught the said cold on Monday at the Bon-Marche, or, as she maintains, on Tuesday in his smoking-room.