But where shall I meet her?
Here?
No! Once she gets into my apartment complications arise, for it is much more difficult to throw a woman out of your house than simply to walk off and leave her at a street corner.

Suppose I designated the corner of the rue de Sevres and the rue de la Chaise, under the wall of the Abbaye-au-Bois.

It is solitary, and then, too, it is only a minute's walk from here.

Or no, I will begin vaguely, naming no meeting-place at all.

I shall solve that problem later, when I get her reply." He wrote a letter in which he spoke of his own spiritual lassitude and declared that no good could come of an interview, for he no longer sought happiness on earth.
"I will add that I am in poor health.