As she did so she revealed two rows of shiny, pearly teeth that really added to her beauty.
“Thank you, but it was very wrong,” she said, with charming naïveté.
“What was wrong, mademoiselle?”
She smiled.
“You know you shouldn’t.”
“What?”
“Have knocked him down.”
“But he shouldn’t have struck you.”
“I was wrong. I went out without a veil.”
“As ladies always do in my country,” said Max.