Un soir, tourmenté par ces idées, il sortit de ce salon de la duchesse où il avait trop l’air d’un amant régnant ; errant au hasard dans la ville, il passa devant le théâtre qu’il vit éclairé ; il entra.
One evening, tormented by these thoughts, he left that drawing-room of the Duchessa in which he had too much of the air of a reigning lover; wandering at random through the town, he came opposite the theatre, in which he saw lights; he went in.