And, as you know, you've never had any real objection to me except that I'm not a Frenchman.

And am I not becoming such as fast as possible ?" "You don't look very much like one, but you act like one and often you talk like one." "Thanks, Suzanne.

That's praise coming from you." "Now be off with you.

My mistress is surely in the great room, and if you care for her as much as you pretend, you will see that she is not lonely, and don't talk nonsense, either." John, chuckling, withdrew.

As Suzanne had predicted he found Julie in the large room, and she was quite composed, when she bade him good morning.
"I see that the storm goes on," she said.
"So much the better.