"Mine? I'll never marry as long as I live!"
She made a gesture as if to contradict his words.
"Though, indeed, such things must be, after all? We take refuge in the commonplace, despairing of ever realising the beautiful existence of which we have dreamed."
"All your dreams, however, are not so—candid!"
"What do you mean?"
"When you drive to races with women!"
He cursed the Maréchale. Then something recurred to his memory.
"But it was you begged of me yourself to see her at one time in the interest of Arnoux."
She replied with a shake of her head:
"And you take advantage of it to amuse yourself?"