But love--don't we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it?
What does one mean?
I believe I care for you more genuinely than nine men out of ten care for the women they're in love with.

It's only a story one makes up in one's mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn't true.

Of course one knows; why, one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

One takes care not to see them too often, or to be alone with them for too long together.

It's a pleasant illusion, but if you're thinking of the risks of marriage, it seems to me that the risk of marrying a person you're in love with is something colossal." "I don't believe a word of that, and what's more you don't, either," she replied with anger.