"Isn't it Paul and Virginia?"
"Yes," replied Rodolphe, who did not want to vex her at the outset by contradicting her.
"They are very well done," said Louise.
"Alas!" thought Rodolphe, gazing at her, "the poor child is not up to much as regards literature. I am sure that her only orthography is that of the heart. I must buy her a dictionary."
However, as Louise complained of her boots incommoding her, he obligingly helped her to unlace them.
All at once the light went out.
"Hallo!" exclaimed Rodolphe, "who has blown the candle out?"
A joyful burst of laughter replied to him.
A few days later Rodolphe met one of his friends in the street.
"What are you up to?" said the latter. "One no longer sees anything of you."