and so!..." She struck the sands of the garden with the soles of her little shoes.
An hysterical sneer distorted her mouth.
"Perhaps I might make an exception of you....

You who, with all your braggart arrogance, are, after all, outright and simple-hearted.

I believe you capable of assuring a woman of all kinds of love-lies ...
believing them yourself most of all.

But the others!...

_Ay, the others!_...