“Oh! I am well aware that you no longer stay with me.”
“That is necessary; I must show myself in society; that is the place where a man makes acquaintances.”
“Disastrous ones, sometimes!”
“Oh! mon Dieu! I am not a child; I know with whom I am dealing! Why, to hear you and your mother talk, anyone would think that I am not capable of taking care of myself.
“I never said that, my dear; but I cannot help regretting the time when I alone was sufficient for your enjoyment; then you passed all your time with me,—you did not go into society.—Well! were you not happy?”
“To be sure I was.”
“Then why have you changed your mode of life?”
“Why? why? That is a strange question to ask me! a man cannot always be making love to his wife, can he?”
“Oh! I have discovered that! But I did not expect to learn it after only a year of married life.”
“Well, well! are you going to begin your reproaches again? Women are never reasonable.”