“Not in comparison with the one you wore on Rue des Rosiers?”

“You always have something unkind to say!”

“I don’t see what there is unkind in what I said.”

“I suppose you’d have me go out in cap and apron!”

“They wouldn’t be unbecoming to you.”

“But I have no desire to wear them.”

“Oh! I believe you!”

“To hear you, anyone would think that before you knew me I was a stupid, awkward country girl!”

“I am well aware that you were not an innocent maid.”

“Are we going to stay here on the boulevard all night? I am going home; are you coming with me?