"Ah!" she said, "do go quickly into the salon before anybody sees you here, there's a good dog!"
"Suppose I take myself off altogether?"
"What?"
"Suppose we put off our reading till this evening?"
"That would be better still."
"Shall I go out by the way you know?"
"Yes, yes.... Till to-night! Would you like me to give Bocage a hint?"
"No. I want to read it over to you first."
"As you like.... But come, off with you!"
"Oh! how tiresome it is of de Vigny to come just at this moment!"