"What?"
"I'm bored!"
"Since when?"
"Don't laugh! Really, I am unhappy! If something exciting would happen—if I could fall in love!"
"You will be when you come back!"
"Yes—that's the trouble!" said Doré, laughing. "But it never lasts!"
"And day before yesterday?"
"What about it?"
"That wonderful Italian you came home raving about?"
"Ah, yes! that was a great disappointment!" She repeated, in a tone of discouragement: "A great disappointment! It's the second meeting that's so awful! Men are so stupid, it's no fun any more!" All at once she noticed her friend's attitude. "What's the matter? You're not angry!"