I am like papa: I demand what is due to me.

And then--" She lowered her voice: "And then, I have--impulses! Now, my dear, I bore you.

What will you have?
You shouldn't have loved me." This language, to which she had accustomed him, often spoiled his pleasure.

But it did not alarm him.

He was sensitive to all that she did, but not at all to what she said; and he attached no importance to a woman's words.