Labordette was getting out of an open carriage where Gaga, Clarisse

and Blanche de Sivry had kept a place for him. As he was hurrying

to cross the course and enter the weighing enclosure Nana got

Georges to call him. Then when he came up:

"What's the betting on me?" she asked laughingly.

She referred to the filly Nana, the Nana who had let herself be

shamefully beaten in the race for the Prix de Diane and had not even

been placed in April and May last when she ran for the Prix des Cars