“Not the least in the world.”
“Oh! but indeed you do.”
“Not at all.”
“All the court knows it.”
“I do not belong to the court.”
“You are playing the child. I tell you it is well known!”
“That may be, madame, but I am ignorant of it.”
“You are not ignorant, however, of the fact that the day before yesterday a page fell from his horse at the gate of Trianon. Were you not there by chance?”
“Yes, madame.”
“Did you not help him to rise?”