“Cleopatra!” I repeated, quietly. “Monsieur, too, has been looking at Cleopatra; what does he think of her?”

“ Cela ne vaut rien ,” he responded. “ Une femme superbe⁠—une taille d’impératrice, des formes de Junon, mais une personne dont je ne voudrais ni pour femme, ni pour fille, ni pour sœur. Aussi vous ne jeterez plus un seul coup d’oeil de sa côté. ” 114

“But I have looked at her a great many times while Monsieur has been talking; I can see her quite well from this corner.”

“Turn to the wall and study your four pictures of a woman’s life.”