Look here,
Arnaut, it is quite clear if you don't send that infant away, you might
just as well live _en garcon_, like me, as I foresee you won't have much
of Mathilde's society now," said Leon.
"It does not require much foresight to predict that," said the baron,
bitterly.
"Well, if Mathilde won't send it away, just hand it over to me the next
time I take a cruise, which will be as soon as ever there is wind enough
to fill my sails, and I'll place the child somewhere where there is no
fear of Mathilde getting it again till it is of a reasonable age," said
Leon.
The idea of handing the baby over to the tender mercies of Leon struck
them all as so comic that a general laugh, in which all but the baron
joined, greeted this speech, which was forgotten as soon as it was
uttered by the speaker.
A few days after Leon announced that he was going on board his yacht
that evening; a south wind was blowing, and he should take a cruise up
the Channel. Would the baron go with him? They were sure to have fine
weather, and it would be delightful at sea in this heat.
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