I don't know why.

And then I have my rank, which imposes on me its obligations.

Sometimes I wish I were a little woman of nothing at all, so that I could do as I like.
Mais enfin, I do what I can.

You have come, Paul Savelli, with your youth and your faith and your genius, and you pay your court to me like the others.

Yes, it is true--and as long as it was amusing, I let it go on.