On that particular evening, a gossip having taken the place of the usual game, he naively blurted out that the conversation of the former commissary of police amused him almost as much as dominoes.
Ce soir-là, la causerie ayant remplacé le jeu, il s'écria naïvement que la conversation de l'ancien commissaire de police l'amusait presque autant qu'une partie de dominos.