Now don't try to tell stories.

I should find you out in a moment; I am accustomed to hear falsehoods all day." "There is nothing to be ashamed of, mademoiselle.

Every one must have a hero, and I was the only boy you knew.

No one could have misunderstood you; and even to those artificial fops who were standing round you, there seemed nothing strange or unmaidenly in your avowal that when you were a little girl you made a hero of a boy.

You are quite right, I did not make a heroine of you.