to me.

"Come, now, do you seriously mean what you say?" she said.

"Seriously."

"But why didn't you say it to me sooner?"

"When could I have said it?"

"The day after you had been introduced to me at the Opera
Comique."

"I thought you would have received me very badly if I had come to
see you."

"Why?"

"Because I had behaved so stupidly."

"That's true. And yet you were already in love with me."

"Yes."

"And that didn't hinder you from going to bed and sleeping quite
comfortably. One knows what that sort of love means."

"There you are mistaken. Do you know what I did that evening,
after the Opera Comique?"