“Matter! How dare you, a young person, sit coolly down, with the self-possession of a garçon , and look at that picture?”

“It is a very ugly picture, but I cannot at all see why I should not look at it.”

“ Bon! bon! Speak no more of it. But you ought not to be here alone.”

“If, however, I have no society⁠—no party , as you say? And then, what does it signify whether I am alone, or accompanied? nobody meddles with me.”