"Tell me, how long will this new love of yours last?"
"My relations with Mademoiselle Rosette?—for you mustn't call it love."
"It is a little liaison of no consequence—for amusement."
"Give it whatever name you choose. Well, how long will this little liaison of no consequence, for amusement, be likely to last?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because I want to know."
"It's rather hard for me to answer. How is it possible to say? You see, I know nothing of the girl's temperament. Such liaisons sometimes end in a week; sometimes they last three months."
"All right. Then I will come again three months hence."
"What does this mean? Why do you leave me so?"