CHAPTER VI.
In the cab, beyond the fortifications, which were skirted by the deserted boulevard, Felicie and Robert held one another in a close embrace.
"Don't you love your own Felicie?
Tell me! Doesn't it flatter your vanity to possess a little woman who makes people cheer and clap her, who is written about in the newspapers?
Mamma pastes all my notices in her album.

The album is full already." He replied that he had not waited for her to succeed before discovering how charming she was; and, in fact, their liaison had begun when she was making an obscure first appearance at the Odeon in a revival which had fallen flat.
"When you told me that you wanted me, I didn't keep you waiting, did I?
We didn't take long about that! Wasn't I right?
You are too sensible to think badly of me because I didn't keep things dragging along.

When I saw you for the first time I felt that I was to be yours, so it wasn't worth while delaying.

I don't regret it.

Do you ?" The cab stopped at a short distance from the fortifications, in front of a garden railing.
This railing, which had not been painted for a long time, stood on a wall faced with pebbles, low and broad enough to permit of children perching themselves on it.