"'The other has been taken away.'

"'No, nothing has been taken away. You drank out of the
same cup.'

"'Even if that were so, you have no longer the right to
trouble about such things.'

"'I have the right, as I am still supposed to be your lover.
You ought at least to show me respect, and, as I am leaving
in three days, you might wait until I have gone to do as you
like.'

"The night following this scene Musset discovered George
Sand, crouching on her bed, writing a letter.

"'What are you doing?' he asked.

"'I am reading,' she replied, and she blew out the candle.

"'If you are reading, why do you put the candle out?'

"'It went out itself: light it again.'

"Alfred de Musset lit it again.

"'Ah, so you were reading, and you have no book. Infamous
woman, you might as well say that you are writing to your
lover.' George Sand had recourse to her usual threat of