"Indeed, I don't know! but my mother tells me that a young girl runs so much risk when she listens to a man; and you, who listen to more than one, must run a much greater risk!"
"But nothing happens to me, you see! for when the young gentlemen presume to do things that are not nice, or make too—too gallant remarks to me, why, it doesn't take me long to send them about their business!"
"What are the too gallant remarks, and the things that are not nice?"
"Mon Dieu! must I tell you everything? It is strange that you know nothing!"
"Where, then, do you suppose that I can learn anything?"
"The too gallant remarks—those are when men tell us that we are pretty or attractive—that they love us, that they adore us."
"Oh! but it must be nice to have that said to you! Is it necessary to be angry? what a pity!"
"One must be very angry when they add: 'Love me, I implore you; reciprocate my love, give me your heart; I will be faithful to you!'—and a lot of oaths, of which they don't mean a word!"
"Ah! do you think that they don't mean a word of them? In that case, why do they say them?"
"Because it amuses them. But if we listened to them, they would say much more."