“I agree with you that it very seldom does. Ah! it is great happiness, but there are not two people in the world who are able to understand you.”
XII.
*The day when a wife behaves nicely to her husband—all is over.
XIII.
I asked her: “Where have you been, Jeanne?”
“I have been to your friend’s to get your plate that you left there.”
“Ah, indeed! everything is still mine,” I said. The following year I repeated the question under similar circumstances.
“I have been to bring back our plate.”
“Well, well, part of the things are still mine,” I said. But after that, when I questioned her, she spoke very differently.
“You wish to know everything, like great people, and you have only three shirts. I went to get my plate from my friend’s house, where I had stopped.”