“Will you not sing again, mademoiselle?”
“I sincerely hope not; I have paid my debt and that is enough.”
“Are you not fond of music?”
“Yes, very fond of it,—with people whom I know. I do not see the necessity of entertaining people whom one has never seen, and who often listen only from politeness.”
“You judge society already with——”
The deuce! another figure. At last the final figure came and the dance was at an end. No matter, I had had an opportunity to decide that the young woman was not a fool. Perhaps she would not have said as much of me.
I seized Giraud as he was about to turn up his lamps, which were already beginning to go out.
“You saw me dancing with that young lady opposite us?”
“Yes.”
“Well, it was my partner whom I was asking you about just now.”