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she said abruptly ; `` Daybreak will be upon us before we know it , and we have done no business at all this evening . To enrol three new associates is a matter of fifteen minutes ; the rest of our time has been wasted ! '' `` Do not say so , Madame ! '' interposed Max Graub , `` You have three new friends -- three new ` sons of your blood , ' as you so poetically call them , -- though , truly , I for one am more fit to be your grandfather ! And do you consider the time wasted that has been spent in improving and instructing your newly-born children ? '' Lotys turned upon him with a look of disdain . `` You are a would-be jester ; '' she said coldly ; `` Old men love a jest , I know , but they should take care to make it at the right time , and in the right place .