"A truce, then, Madam! Let us leave the one question against the other for a time." "Excellent! I shall get my answer first, in that case, and for nothing." "How so ?" "I shall only watch you.

As we are here now, I were a fool, worse than you, if I could not tell whether or not you are married.

None the less, I commend you, I admire you, because you do not tell me.

If you are _not_, you are disappointed.

If you _are_, you are eager!" "I am in any case delighted that I can interest Madam." "Ah, but you do! I have not been interested, for so long! Ah, the great heavens, how fat was Mr.Pakenham, how thin was Mr.Calhoun! But you--come, Monsieur, the night is long.