"Fifine!"
"Well?"
"Doesn’t your heart say anything to you? does not this meeting cause you a delicious emotion, as it does me?"
"Mon Dieu! no! I am not moved at all!"
"Fifine, I still have a neat little income, and I hope to get back into my old department. As we have met again, what prevents us from renewing a connection that was once so affectionate, from adoring each other as we used?"
"No, thanks! I won’t renew anything! You would only have to inherit some more money, and then you’d drop me again!"
"Ah! Fifine! what a rebuke! You cut me to the heart!"
"I am very sorry, but you don’t cut me at all!"
"Let us at least make the most of the chance that brings us together; come and dine with me, Fifine."
"No."