Private Conversation

This illustration is from the series “Les débardeurs.” At a costumed dance, two women have stepped aside to a corner of the room by a curtain to settle the details of their strategy for the evening.
The caption reads in the original French:

— Ils vont venir : Écoute Hortense ! sur le coup de minuit, minuit et demi, vois-tu ? J’aurai à faire… Tu t’arrangeras pour m’égarer mon Anténor…