“And free as air—I come back to that.”
“Ah! if I were in her place!”
“My levity would be quite shocking.”
“Oh! gentlemen, what a happy man will he be who is loved first!”
“You think, then, that she will have many lovers?”
“Being as free as air—”
“All the boxes are full, except the stage-box opposite to that in which Mdlle. de Cardoville is seated. Happy the occupiers of that box!”
“Did you see the English ambassador’s lady in the dress circle?”
“And the Princess d’Alvimar—what an enormous bouquet!”
“I should like to know the name—of that nosegay.”