"Ah! dreams? Do you believe in dreams?"
"What nonsense!"
"I believe in them. I am sure that you had a dream which foretold some tragic event."
"Good heavens! I never remember my dreams. Once I recollect ... that I saw Massigny in my dream; so, you see, it was not very entertaining."
"Massigny! But I should have thought you would have been pleased at seeing him again!"
"Poor Massigny!"
"Why 'poor Massigny'?"
"Please tell me, Auguste, what is wrong with you to-night. Your smile is perfectly diabolic, and you seem to be making game of yourself."
"Ah! now you are treating me as badly as your old dowager friends treat me."
"Yes, Auguste, you wear the same expression to-day that you put on before people whom you do not like."