"That is no reason."

"Yes it is, I tell you."

"No, I swear it isn't. I had plenty of inclination for you."

"But you got over it."

"And you are trying hard to get over yours; that shows you are still ill of it. But Joseph?"

"Well, what of Joseph?"

"You were never bound to him?"

"You know that well enough!"

"But—Charlot?"

"Charlot?"