"That I should very much like to study astronomy if in all the world there could be discovered anybody amiable enough to teach me."
"How pathetic! If I only had time——"
"Have you no time at all?"
"It wouldn't do, mon ami."
"Why?"
"Because I should be seen going to a rendezvous with you."
"Isn't there any way into the cabaret garden except through the cabaret?" he asked.
She shook her head, laughing at him out of her brown eyes.
He waited a moment to control his voice, but there was a tremor in it when he said:
"Is there no way through the cellar?"