“Mademoiselle, you know little of me; I can be embarrassed as a petite pensionnaire ; there is a fund of modesty and diffidence in my nature⁠—”

“Monsieur, I never saw it.”

“Mademoiselle, it is there. You ought to have seen it.”

“Monsieur, I have observed you in public⁠—on platforms, in tribunes, before titles and crowned heads⁠—and you were as easy as you are in the third division.”