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We should certainly have gone on talking for hours and without tiring; but suddenly we both together remembered that Rose must be waiting for me at my house and I rose to go.
As I did so, I said:
"I happen not to know your Christian name. What is it?"
"Floris."
Floris! That name, so little known in France but very frequent in Holland, surprised me; and I had some difficulty in not saying:
"Then you are not a Frenchman?"
But all that I said was:
"Floris, you shall have your Rose!"