"Has everything been very pleasant? Tell me the particulars; come, tell me."
"Now wait a moment. I did not know that this was to be a comedy; and although Madame de T——- gave me a part in the play—"
"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—?"