"What the devil do you think it would do to me?"
"You are not very amiable to-night."
"I am not in a good temper."
"What is the matter with you?"
"This is the matter. If only I had seen the English actors before I had constructed my Juliette I should either not have done it at all, or done it differently."
"Will you take my advice?"
"In what way?"
"As the sincere advice of a friend.... Leave your Juliette on one side as I have left my Fiesque, and dream of something else."
"Bah! when it is finished!"