Lheureux rühmte ihre Billigkeit. Dann bestellte sie einen Teppich, den der Händler bereitwillig zu besorgen versprach, wobei er versicherte, er werde »die Welt nicht kosten«.
On the strength of it she bought a pair of yellow curtains with large stripes for her room, whose cheapness Monsieur Lheureux had commended; she dreamed of getting a carpet, and Lheureux, declaring that it wasn't "drinking the sea," politely undertook to supply her with one.