“No, she wouldn’t do anything; but she is jealous, and it would make her unhappy.”
“She would be very foolish to be jealous of me.”
“That is true; but jealous people often are foolish, you know.”
“Henri, I am going to make a proposition to you.”
“What is it?”
“Take me to dinner instead of your wife. You can tell her this evening that you had an engagement that you couldn’t break.”
“No, I haven’t reached that point yet, thank heaven!”
“Oh! I was only joking, monsieur; I know that you are too virtuous to play such a trick. Have you got ants on your legs?”
“No, but I don’t want to stand here.”
“Very well; let us walk then.”