What a business!" "Very well, then, do not trouble yourself about the table; we will set it together when you have finished, and that will be much more amusing." "You take everything in good part." "Is it better to look on the dark side?
I shall soon return." She went to the door.
"Do not be extravagant," he said.
"There is no danger," she replied, striking her pocket.
Then, returning to him, she embraced him passionately.
"Work!" And she ran out.
They had loved each other for two years.

At the time they met, Saniel was giving a course of lectures on anatomy at a young ladies' school just outside of Paris, and every time he went out there he saw a young woman whom he could not help noticing.

She came and went on the same trains that he did, and gave lessons in a rival school.

As she frequently carried under her arm a large cartoon, and sometimes a plaster cast, he concluded that she gave lessons in drawing.

At first he paid no attention to her.