Nothing that dame from her was indifferent to me.

I rose to my feet, saying in an altered voice, which I could not entirely control: "If that is what you think of me, madame, I have only to ask your pardon for my indiscretion, and to take leave of you with the assurance that it shall not occur again." Thereupon I bowed and quitted the box.

I had scarcely closed the door when I heard a third peal of laughter.

It would not have been well for anybody who had elbowed me at that moment.
I returned to my seat.

The signal for raising the curtain was given.
Ernest came back to his place beside me.
"What a way you behaved!" he said, as he sat down.