MADAME DE TREYMES
"Ah, but you don't know what that is!" She continued to smile, elusively, ambiguously. "And what's more, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"How do you know?" he rejoined.
"You didn't believe me once before; and this is so much more incredible."
He took the taunt full in the face. "I shall go away unhappy unless you tell me—but then perhaps I have deserved to," he confessed.
She shook her head again, advancing toward the door with the evident intention of bringing their conference to a close; but on the threshold she paused to launch her reply.
"I can't send you away unhappy, since it is in the contemplation of your happiness that I have found my reward."
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