It's so mad--like opening a chest of buried treasure.

You don't know what's going to be in it, but you know it's certain to be rare and desirable.

What do you do, Mathilde?
Live here with your father and mother ?" She sat looking at him.

The truth was that she found everything he said so unexpected and thrilling that now and then she lost all sense of being expected to answer.
"Oh, yes," she said, suddenly remembering.

"I live here with my mother and stepfather.