“And content?”
“Enchanted.”
“The queen received you, then?”
“I was introduced immediately on my arrival.”
“You were fortunate. I suppose, from your triumphant air, that she spoke to you.”
“I passed three hours in her majesty’s cabinet.”
“Three hours! You are really an enchantress whom no one can resist. But perhaps you exaggerate. Three hours!” he repeated; “how many things a clever woman like you might say in three hours!”
“Oh, I assure you, monseigneur, that I did not waste my time.”
“I dare say that in the whole three hours you did not once think of me.”
“Ungrateful man!”