“By your leave, not Pascal, but Gerard—Gabrielle.”
“I wonder what we ought to be doing when they come. I fear my heart is beating rather wildly.”
“Fitting its beats to the occasion, that’s all. As to what we should do, can’t you find a suggestion out of your experience?”
“Cannot you?”
“I think we ought to be making love—Gabrielle. That’s what Gerard would be doing, I expect.”
“We’re doing one thing that’s right, at any rate. We’re talking nonsense—Gerard.”
“Well, I think we ought to play our parts thoroughly.”
“Do you treat everything as a jest?”
“Not when I’m Gerard to your Gabrielle. It’s a part I could play in real earnest.”
“I think Gerard is an extremely ridiculous person.”