You admired her; that was for the second time.

But she, whom you so calmly speak of as "Jeanne," as if she were something to you, never even noticed you.

You know nothing about her but what you suspect from her maiden grace and a dozen words from her lips.

You do not know whether she is free, nor how she would welcome the notions you entertain if you gave them utterance, yet here you are saying, "We should go here," "We should do this and that." Keep to the singular, my poor fellow.

The plural is far away, very far away, if not entirely beyond your reach..