“She doesn’t dare. She says you don’t like her.”
“That, my dear, is funny. I’ve adored her for years and she’s consistently snubbed me.”
“Well, anyway, you’re so different, she feels you wouldn’t understand. You see, she puts up with a good deal herself.”
“I know. Perhaps I understand more than she thinks I do.”
“She’s very unhappy in her marriage, too, but she doesn’t make a fuss about it. She doesn’t expect the impossible.”
“Whereas I do?”
“Well, yes. Between you and me and the lamp-post I think you do.”
“I only ask to be allowed to save Geneviève from a fate like my own.”
“Oh, my dear, if you think they’ll let you have Geneviève—”