Page 75.

[Footnote 180: #passe avant#, takes precedence of. The term is from

aristocratic etiquette.]

[Footnote 181: #j'y pense#, it just occurs to me.]

ACT III. SCENE 9.

Page 78.

[Footnote 182: #prérogatives#, consideration. For instance, one

might choose to be shot rather than guillotined, to look death in the

face with unbandaged eyes, and to give the command to fire, all matters

regarded as questions of honor by soldiers sentenced to death.]

[Footnote 183: #sans bruit#, unostentatiously, but de Grignon takes

it literally. The rest of this scene recalls not unsuccessfully

Molière's sans dot in "l'Avare," Act I., Scene 5.]

ACT III. SCENE 10.