"You did me the honour of saying a great many things to me yesterday."
"Yes, that was so ... but I mean about that famous hemistich."
"Which?"
"Oh, good gracious! you know quite well the one I mean!"
"I swear I do not, madame; you make so many neat and valuable suggestions that I confuse one with the other."
"I mean the line about the lion."
"Ah yes! 'Vous êtes, mon lion!' I remember...."
"Well, have you found another line?"
"I confess I have not tried to think of one."