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I shall say nothing." "What is the matter with you to-night ?" said Marguerite, rising and coming to the back of the box and kissing me on the forehead. "I am not very well." "You should go to bed," she replied, with that ironical air which went so well with her delicate and witty face. "Where ?" "At home." "You know that I shouldn't be able to sleep there." "Well, then, it won't do for you to come and be pettish here because you have seen a man in my box." "It is not for that reason." "Yes, it is.
I know; and you are wrong, so let us say no more about it.
You will go back with Prudence after the theatre, and you will stay there till I call.
Do you understand ?" "Yes." How could I disobey? "You still love me ?" "Can you ask ?" "You have thought of me ?" "All day long." "Do you know that I am really afraid that I shall get very fond of you? Ask Prudence." "Ah," said she, "it is amazing!" "Now, you must go back to your seat.
The count will be coming back, and there is nothing to be gained by his finding you here." "Because you don't like seeing him." "No; only if you had told me that you wanted to come to the Vaudeville to-night I could have got this box for you as well as he." "Unfortunately, he got it for me without my asking him, and he asked me to go with him; you know well enough that I couldn't refuse.
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