Guérin [advancing]. Really, Madame, it would be most ungrateful of me to refuse your kindness.
Françoise. Here are magazines and newspapers—I shall ask to be excused. [As she is about to leave.] It was rather difficult to make you stay!
Guérin. Forgive me, Madame. [Aside ironically.] Too bad! She's decidedly charming!
[Having gone up-stage, Françoise suddenly returns.]
Françoise. It seems a little strange to you, Monsieur—doesn't it?—to see a woman in this bachelor studio—quite at home?
Guérin. Why, Madame—
Françoise. Before leaving you—which I shall do in a moment—you must know that there is one woman who is very glad to know you have returned to Paris!
Guérin. We just arrived this week.
Françoise. Good!
Guérin [ironically]. It's so long since I've seen Marcel.