RUD. My sweetheart!
MIMI. Your comrades await you!
RUD. Do you then dismiss me?
MIMI. I should like—no, I dare not!
RUD. Say!
MIMI. (coquettishly) Could I not come with you?
RUD. What, Mimi?
It would be much more pleasant here to stay.
Outside 'tis chilly!
MIMI. To you I'll be neighbor! I'll be always near you.
RUD. On returning?
MIMI. (archly) Who knows, sir?