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‘Where?’
‘Where I am going.’
‘But where are you going?’
‘You will see, because you will leave me at the door.’
‘Shall I wait for you?’
‘That will be useless.’
‘You will return alone, then?’
‘Perhaps yes, perhaps no.’
‘But will the person who shall accompany you afterward
be a man or a woman?’
‘I don’t know yet.’
‘But I will know it!’
‘How so?’
‘I will wait until you come out.’
‘In that case, adieu.’
‘Why so?’
‘I do not want you.’
‘But you have claimed—‘
‘The aid of a gentleman, not the watchfulness of a spy.’
‘The word is rather hard.’
‘How are they called who follow others in spite of
them?’
‘They are indiscreet.’
‘The word is too mild.’
‘Well, madame, I perceive I must do as you wish.’
‘Why did you deprive yourself of the merit of doing so
at once?’
‘Is there no merit in repentance?’
‘And do you really repent?’

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