And she went on reciting and dropping curtsies at the places indicated by the text and by the traditions of the stage.
"Soudain il me refait une autre reverence; Moi, j'en refais de meme une autre en diligence; Et lui, d'une troisieme aussitot repartant, D'une troisieme aussi j'y repars a l'instant." She executed every detail of stage business, seriously and conscientiously, taking pains to give a perfect rendering.

Her poses, some of which were disconcerting, requiring as they did a skirt to explain them, were almost all pretty, while all were interesting, inasmuch as they brought into relief the firm muscles under the soft envelope of a young body, and revealed at every movement correspondences and harmonies which are not commonly observed.
When clothing her nudity with the propriety of her attitudes and the ingenuousness of her expressions she was the incarnation, through mere chance and caprice, of a gem of art, an allegory of Innocence in the style of Allegrain or Clodion.

And the great lines of the comedy rang out with delicious purity from this animated figurine.

Robert, enthralled in spite of himself, suffered her to go on to the very end.
What entertained him above all was that the most public of all things, a stage scene, should be presented to him in so private and secret a fashion.

And, while watching the ceremonious actions of this girl in all her nudity, he was at the same time revelling in the philosophical pleasure of discovering how dignity is produced in the best social circles.
"Il passe, vient, repasse et toujours de plus belle Me fait a chaque fois une reverence nouvelle, Et moi qui tous ses tours fixement regardais, Nouvelle reverence aussi je lui rendais...." In the meantime she admired in the mirror her freshly-budded breasts, her supple waist, her arms, a trifle slender, round and tapering, and her smooth, beautiful knees; and, seeing all this subservient to the fine art of comedy, she became animated and exalted; a slight flush, like rouge, tinted her cheeks.
"Tant que si sur ce point la nuit ne fut venue, Toujours comme cela je me serais tenue, Ne voulaut point ceder, ni recevoir l'ennui Qu'il me put estimer moins civile que lui...." He called to her from the bed, where he was lying on his elbow.
"Now come!" Whereupon, full of animation and with heightened colour, she exclaimed: "Don't you think that I, too, love you!" She flung herself beside her lover.