"That doesn't concern you; adieu!"
"You are in a great hurry."
"I don't see that we have anything more to say to each other."
"Nothing more to say to each other! You always forget that we have, on the contrary, a very serious subject to discuss. But I will come to see you."
"Very well, I am horribly tired. Adieu!"
"You run away as if you had seen Paul Duronceray here."
The name of Duronceray caused the fair Thélénie a painful shock; despite the mask that covered her face it was easy to detect the perturbation which that name aroused in her mind.
She soon succeeded in recovering herself, however, and rejoined in a harsh voice:
"You are mistaken, Beauregard, I run away from nobody; and if Monsieur Duronceray were here, I should not be the one to run away—but you!"
"I! oh, no! for now he ought to thank me, instead of bearing me a grudge."