what is certain to give them pain."

"But I assure you," I added coldly, as if wishing to prove how
completely I was cured of my passion, "I assure you that I am not
cross. It was quite natural that some one should be waiting for
you, just as it is quite natural that I should go from here at
three in the morning."

"Have you, too, some one waiting for you?"

"No, but I must go."

"Good-bye, then."

"You send me away?"

"Not the least in the world."

"Why are you so unkind to me?"

"How have I been unkind to you?"

"In telling me that some one was waiting for you."

"I could not help laughing at the idea that you had been so happy
to see me come in alone when there was such a good reason for
it."

"One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad
to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one