“Yes, my dear; come, let me in quickly.”

“What for?”

“Parbleu! I’ll tell you in a minute. Open the door.”

“Oh! I can’t!”

“You can’t! what does that mean? that’s decidedly new!”

“My aunt told me not to.”

“Your aunt doesn’t know what she says. As she has been a widow thirty-three years, perhaps she has forgotten that husbands and wives sleep together.

“Oh, yes! I know that you will sleep with me finally; but she told me that modesty requires me to postpone the time as long as possible.”

“And I tell you that we must sleep together at once; modesty has nothing more to do with our love; hymen has its rights, and you must listen to it now; the pleasures it permits should not alarm your modesty.”

“I don’t understand all that.”