"Oh, are you the one they recommended to me?"
"Yes, mademoiselle."
"Did they engage you?"
"No, mademoiselle."
"I am sorry for it, for you seem to me very pleasing, very honest. Where do you come from?"
"From Verberie, mademoiselle."
"Why did you come to Paris?"
"I have lost both my parents and I thought I should find work more easily in a great city."
"Yes, but great cities are dangerous places for virtuous young maids such as you appear to be. They should have told you that, my child."
"Yes, they did, mademoiselle! but I am not afraid of anything."