——“Well, you are not like me.”
——“Does it make your head swim?”
——“What a dear old goosey you are!”
——“Not such a goose as I look.... Once more, what on earth is the effect that the waltz does produce upon you?”
——“I ... do not know.”
——“Try to find out.”
And as I foresaw that my wife was about to make me a little confidence, and my wife’s confidences have always deeply interested me, I turned down the lamps, made her turn her back to the light, and applied an attentive ear to her pretty mouth.
“Now, come,” I said to her; “do tell me.”
——“I am sure, I don’t know.”
——“Oh yes, you do.”