“Very well, dear, I am glad he has rendered you so sensible.”
“What do you mean? Could anyone be insensible to his merit?”
“Better still, but I agree with you. Only tell me if you love him?”
“Well, even if I loved him, do you think I would go and tell him? Besides, I am certain that he loves my friend.”
So saying, she sat down on M—— M——’s knee, calling her her own little wife, and my two beauties began to bestow on one another caresses which made me laugh heartily. Far from troubling their sport, I excited them, in order to enjoy a spectacle with which I had long been acquainted.
M—— M—— took up a book full of the most lascivious engravings, and said, with a significant glance in my direction:
“Do you wish me to have a fire lighted in the alcove?”
I understood her, and replied:
“You would oblige me, for the bed being large we can all three sleep comfortably in it.”
I guessed that she feared my suspecting the ambassador of enjoying from the mysterious closet the sight of our amorous trio, and she wished to destroy that suspicion by her proposal.