"Monsieur will send an answer."
"The Countess will be displeased. These French gentlemen are more gallant but less polite than our English lords. She is as much in love as Love itself."
"He also is in love."
"Then it ought to be easy enough, for Madame is a widow."
"But it is not your mistress that he loves."
"Ah! who then?"
"Ah! nothing for nothing." And he held out his hands.
"Ah! shocking!"
"Very well," and he started, as if to return to his master.
She stopped him.