"Very well, you will believe me another day, and now I will ask you to go, for I am tired." I cannot be interrupted by your silly questions about the exact way in which things happened.

I must tell this story in my own way or not at all; and I am sacrificing a great deal to your taste in cutting out all the little things that I really most enjoy telling.

Whether you are astonished at the conduct of the baroness, after a three weeks' acquaintance, or not, I care not a fig.

It is just the way it happened, and I daresay she was really madly in love with Nino.

If I had been Nino I should have been in love with her.