“Of course—on account of the profession.”
“What do you mean by ‘on account of the profession’?”
“Don’t the ladies bully us?”
“That’s true,” said the countryman, smiling.
“And he who fights best,” continued the Frenchman, “will have the doors of society opened to him?”
“Of course.”
“What a strange country!”
“Pardon me,” asked his wife, “but is it true that if a girl deceives her lover, he always kills her?”
“No, not always—sometimes—but he is not obliged to.”
“And you—have you killed a sweetheart?” she inquired, consumed with curiosity.