"I suppose that women like that are rare."

"Those who have known one and desert her are very guilty."

"Say rather that they are very much to be pitied. But not being one of these women, I didn't ask so much."

"You don't know yourself, Mademoiselle. Oh! if only I had been in M. Hervart's place."

"What would have happened?" asked Rose, without the least emotion, without even the least curiosity.

"How I should have loved you!"

"But he loved me a great deal."

"He didn't love you as you should be loved."

"I don't know. How should I know these things? I believed, that was all. I believed in him."

"He was not worthy of you."