Why, sweet, do you ask me ?" "I thought I heard your voice speaking to some one who answered you under my window." "But, love, there was no one with me.

I was quite alone.

And I did not speak at all--not even to myself.

I am not in the habit of soliloquizing." "Please tell me, if you can, at what hour you were under my window." "It was between ten and eleven o'clock.

I was walking in the grounds, and I went under your wall and looked up.