"One does not prevent the other."
"Well! tell me that you love me; let me prove to you that I adore you, and I promise not to be jealous of all the men I see fluttering about you. When a man has the certainty of being preferred to all others, then suspicion is an insult. But is he not justified in trembling, when he has received no favor?"
Armantine did not reply, but she was deeply moved. I tried to take advantage of her agitation to embrace her; but she pushed me away and eluded me, saying:
"What are you doing? Someone may come at any minute. I cannot deny myself to callers; the servants know that you are here."
"Very well! meet me somewhere. Do you not go out whenever you choose?"
"Yes, but—— One thing I will not do, and that is, go to your rooms. Someone might see me go in, and I should be ruined! I am not a gaillarde, like Frédérique, you know."
"Let us meet somewhere."
"I should never dare to go alone to any out-of-the-way place."
"You can take a cab."
"I should be afraid, all alone, in a cab. No, monsieur, I am no dare-devil; I am very cowardly."