"My dear captain, do you know that, although you do not look so, you are marvelously merry?"
"You think so?"
"Yes."
"Does it astonish you?"
"I did not know you were so brave."
"Then you would regret life?"
"I confess it; I only want one thing to make me happy, and that is to live."
"And you became a conspirator with a chance of happiness before you? I do not understand you; I thought people conspired from despair, as they marry when they have no other resource."
"When I joined the conspiracy I did not love."
"And afterward?"