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Updated: May 28, 2025
"No," replied the imperturbable Juanito, "there's a mistake they've got their places mixed those coming behind " "Those with the whips?" Juanito nodded assent, but he was rather perplexed and uneasy. "So those girls are the cochers?" Here Juanito was attacked by such a violent fit of coughing that some of the spectators became annoyed. "Put him out! Put the consumptive out!" called a voice.
"Au Rendezvous des Cochers Fideles," read the announcement on the flap of the awning, and truly enough it was a low resort frequented by cabbies "The meeting-place of faithful coachmen." Along the curb half a score of horses were eating from their bags, while their drivers lounged before the place, eating, drinking, and conversing excitedly in their grotesque jargon.
This very restaurant may be unknown in a year's time, a beer palace for the Germans, a den of absinthe and fiery brandy for the cochers. It is for the tourists, for the happy ladies of the world, that such a place exists. For those who need other things other things exist." "Go on, Louis," I said quietly. "You have something in your mind. What is it?" He shrugged his shoulders.
I was watching you all the time and you never took your eyes off those cochers." So they exchanged parts: Isagani, who had come to demand explanations, found himself compelled to give them and considered himself very happy when Paulita said that she forgave him.
"Where's the cancan?" inquired Tadeo. But the curtain rose again immediately, revealing a scene in a servant market, with three posts on which were affixed signs bearing the announcements: servantes, cochers, and domestiques.
He sought news of me from the garçons at the various cafés, from the cochers de fiacre in front of the Exchange, from the tobacconist lady at the counter of the fashionable Débit de Tabac, from the old man who sold papers outside the cercle, and from the flower-girl at the door of the fashionable restaurant where I had my table.
Paulita became sadder and sadder in thinking about how the girls called cochers could occupy Isagani's attention, for the name had certain disagreeable associations that came from the slang of her convent school-days.
A single step aside from the path he had chosen and tomorrow night he might dine at the Ritz instead of in some sordid cochers' cabaret! And since no one cared since she had betrayed his faith what mattered? Why not...? Yet he could not come to a decision; the next day saw him obstinately, even a little stupidly, pursuing the course he had planned before his disheartening disillusionment.
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