"It's particularly astonishing to make money if one cannot paint."
"It's just for that reason, you see. I'll explain it to you another time."
"Another time, by the fountain, we'll have lunch again."
"We shall see. If it's good weather."
"But you will come earlier? Will you not? Say yes ... Luce...."
(They were come to the station. She jumped on the running board of the tram car.)
"Answer, say yes, little light!..."
She did not answer; but when the tram was in motion she made a "yes" with her eyelids and he read on her lips without her having spoken:
"Yes, Pierre."
Both of them thought, as they went their way: