Besides, it was the cover! Didn't you see the bound it gave ?" And she once more burst into uproarious mirth.
But though he made an effort to the contrary, tears appeared in the young man's eyes, and with that she flung her arms tenderly round his neck.
"How silly you are! You know I love you all the same.

If one never broke anything the tradesmen would never sell anything.

All that sort of thing's made to be broken.

Now look at this fan; it's only held together with glue!" She had snatched up a fan and was dragging at the blades so that the silk was torn in two.

This seemed to excite her, and in order to show that she scorned the other presents, the moment she had ruined his she treated herself to a general massacre, rapping each successive object and proving clearly that not one was solid in that she had broken them all.