“ Comme cela ,” said she: “he is handsome, and he loves me to distraction, so that I am well amused. Ca suffit. ” 17

Finding that she carried the thing on longer than, from her very fickle tastes, I had anticipated, I one day took it upon me to make serious inquiries as to whether the gentleman was such as her parents, and especially her uncle⁠—on whom, it appeared, she was dependent⁠—would be likely to approve. She allowed that this was very doubtful, as she did not believe “Isidore” had much money.

“Do you encourage him?” I asked.

“ Furieusement , sometimes,” said she.