I can assure you that my behavior gave not the least cause for suspicion.

I was not a coquette.

But I was young, fresh; I passed for beautiful.
That was enough.

He would not let me go out alone, and would not let me receive calls in his absence.

Whenever we went to a reception, I trembled in advance with the fear of the scene which he would make later in the carriage." And the good Madame Marmet added, with a sigh: "It is true that I liked to dance.