"I have."
"Children?"
"No children."
"Business seems bad?"
"Business is very bad; the people are so poor."
"Ah, the unfortunate, miserable people! So oppressed, too-as you say."
"As you say," madame retorted, correcting him, and deftly knitting an extra something into his name that boded him no good.
"Pardon me; certainly it was I who said so, but you naturally think so. Of course."
"I think?" returned madame, in a high voice.
"I and my husband have enough to do to keep this wine-shop open, without thinking.