Her advocate, as she called him, did not displease her at first.

After a few months, though, she could not bear him.

She detested him for his polite and polished manners, his manly bearing, his distinguished air, his contempt, which he did not care to hide, for all that is low and vulgar, and, above all, for his unalterable patience, which nothing could tire.

Her great complaint against him was that he was not at all funny, and also, that he absolutely declined to conduct her to those places where one can give a free vent to one's spirits.

To amuse herself, she began to squander money; and her aversion for her lover increased at the same rate as her ambition and his sacrifices.