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Rodolphe, Colline, and Schaunard took twenty-four hours to get their tobacco. When they returned to the house Marcel was alone.

After an absence of six days Vicomte Maurice saw Musette return.

He did not in any way reproach her, and only asked her why she seemed sad.

“I quarrelled with Marcel,” said she; “we parted badly.”

“And yet who knows,” said Maurice, “but you will again return to him.”

“What would you have?” said Musette. “I need to breathe the air of that life from time to time. My life is like a song, each of my loves is a verse, but Marcel is the refrain.”