As I expected, my officer was there. I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet. ’Monsieur,’ said I, ’does it still displease you that I should frequent a certain house of La Rue Payenne?
En efecto, mi oficial estaba allí, me acerqué a él, que cantaba un lai de amor mirando tiernamente a una mujer, y le interrumpí en medio de la segunda estrofa. «Señor, ¿os sigue desagradando que yo vuelva a cierta casa de la calle Payenne, y volveréis a darme una paliza si me entra el capricho de desobedeceros?»