“No, I only laugh; would you rather I were angry? You are difficult to please, monseigneur.”
“Oh; you are charming when you laugh, and I ask nothing better than to see you always doing so; but at this moment you are not laughing; oh, no! there is anger in that smile which shows your beautiful teeth.”
“Not the least in the world, monseigneur.”
“That is good.”
“And I hope you will sup well.”
“I shall sup well, and you?”
“Oh, I am not hungry.”
“How, madame, you refuse to sup with me—you send me away?”
“I do not understand you, monseigneur.”
“Listen, dear countess; if you were less in a passion, I would tell you that it is useless to behave like this—you are always equally charming; but as at each compliment I fear to be dismissed, I abstain.”