“It is true that in Paris, when people are not looking for each other——”
“And even if they are looking for each other, that is no reason why they should find each other. Have you just been married again, monsieur?”
“No, madame. That is well enough when one is a bachelor—to take a new wife every week.”
“You have reformed now, I suppose?”
“Yes, madame, entirely.”
“I congratulate you. And yet, although you have reformed, you look very much to me as if you were here to keep an appointment.”
“That is true, madame, but appointments do not always mean love-affairs.”
“I don’t know what they mean; but you are waiting for someone, and I’ll bet that it’s a woman.”
“You are not mistaken; moreover, a woman whom I am going to take to dinner in a private room at a restaurant.”
“You have reformed with a vengeance! But I should have been more surprised to find it the other way. It was well worth while to get married!”