“It wasn’t a very nice one.”
“Do not worry yourself; there are no bad parts for good actors.”
“I understand, you acquitted yourself well.”
“Admirably.”
“And Madame de T——-?”
“Is adorable.”
“To think of being able to win such a woman!” said he, stopping short in our walk, and looking triumphantly at me. “Oh, what pains I have taken with her! And I have at last brought her to a point where she is perhaps the only woman in Paris on whose fidelity a man may infallibly count!”
“You have succeeded—?”
“Yes; in that lies my special talent. Her inconstancy was mere frivolity, unrestrained imagination. It was necessary to change that disposition of hers, but you have no idea of her attachment to me. But really, is she not charming?”
“I quite agree with you.”