Since I stand with you as your guardian and protector, I feel it my duty to inquire, although it is not in the least my pleasure.

You must have a care." "Madame," expostulated Jeanne, "it is nothing, I assure you.

_Rien du tout--jamais de la vie_, Madame." "Perhaps, but it is of such nothings that troubles sometimes come.
Tell, me, what has this young man said to you ?" "But, Madame!--" "Tell me.

It is quite my right to demand it." "But he has said many things, Madame." "As, for instance, that you please him, that you are beautiful, that you have a voice and hand, a turn of the arm--that you have the manner Parisienne--Jeanne, is it not so ?" "But, yes, Madame, and indeed more.

I find that young man of excellent judgment, of most discriminating taste." "And also of sufficient boldness to express the same to you, is it not so, Jeanne ?" "Madame, the strong are brave.