"About marriage. That's a serious thing."
"Serious! oh! well, not so serious!"
"What, it isn't serious to give all of yourself, without a single reservation?"
"And who talked about doing that? You'd have to be mad!"
"But he wants to have everything!"
Sylvie squirmed with laughter like a little fish.
"Oh! you goose! you stupid! . . . Ninny!"
(It seemed to her so simple to say what one wished, to give what one wished, and to keep back all the rest without saying anything about it! She was affectionately ironical towards men and their demands. They are not so sharp! . . .)
"But I'm not, I'm not all those things," Annette protested.
"Oh! So far as that goes!" exclaimed Sylvie, "you take everything so seriously."