"Good-morning, my dear!"
"Good-morning, madame!"
"Oho! what does that madame mean? Since when have I been madame to you? Is it because you didn't find me when you came, that you would call me madame?"
"Why, no—it was simply for a change."
"I don't like the change, myself! What's the matter?"
"Nothing. Have you been to walk?"
"Yes—that is to say, I have been to pay a visit."
"Oh! a visit. Would it be presumptuous in me to ask you to whom you pay visits—so early?"
"Why, yes, a little presumptuous, perhaps. However, as I see that you are frowning, and that you probably suspect me of treachery already——"
"Oh! upon my word!"