"Twenty. They've wanted to marry me off seventeen times already; but I won't have it; I haven't any taste for marriage. I am right, ain't I?"
"If you have no inclination for marriage, you will certainly do quite as well to remain free."
"Free, that's it! What fun it is to do just what one wants to do! In the first place, I should make a husband very unhappy! And in the second place, how can I marry, now? I don't choose to deceive anyone, and I certainly wouldn't hold myself out for something that I'm not any more."
"You are right, mademoiselle; you shouldn't have any secrets from the man you bind yourself to; but all young ladies aren't like you."
"They're wrong, then. I must go now; I shall get a scolding."
"Just another minute. Tell me; if you hadn't seen that name on the theatre ticket, wouldn't you have come to see me?"
"Oh, no!"
"Then it was on account of the name alone that you came, not on my account?"
"But it was on your account, as the name's yours."