“That woman—why, who should it be but you?”
“What, I? Oh! tell me, was it I?”
“On my word of honor. I trust my experience. I have never seen so ardent and sincere a passion.”
“Oh! is it really so? Has he never had any other love?”
“Never.”
“Yet I was told so.”
“By whom?”
“M. Rodin.”
“That Djalma—”
“Had fallen violently in love, two days after I saw him.”