"I hope, sir, that you will not insist on this journey when I tell you that it will be exceedingly disagreeable to me to quit Paris at this moment."
"You are mistaken, madame; you will go."
"Sir!"
"Madame, the day after to-morrow you will depart."
"I shall not depart!"
"Indeed!"
"Besides, I should be silly, indeed, to believe that you are speaking seriously to me; your ideas are sometimes so strange, your wishes so varying, that it would be worse than childish in me to disturb myself for this fresh fancy."
"It is of little consequence to me, madame, that you are or are not annoyed, so that you obey my desire."
"Obey! the word is somewhat harsh, sir."
"It is just."