human
A carriage is a very convenient thing, especially in Paris, where you can always be certain of finding one with blinds. If you have a secret errand to do, if you don't know where to meet your lover for a little chat--why, you step into a _citadine_, you join the person in question at the appointed place, she enters with you, you close the windows and lower the blinds; and then--go where you choose, driver, you are hired by the hour!--Drive through the most crowded streets of Paris, pass as close as you please to a husband, or a rival--he will see nothing. Sometimes, indeed, he will be the first to smile when he sees a hermetically closed carriage, and will say: 'That probably conceals some intrigue.'--Oh, yes! a carriage is a great convenience, I say again.
gpt
It is, and it is not, said young Tobie, affecting a cunning expression;
human
Madame Baldimer did not hide, said Albert;
gpt
Perhaps they are now,
human
I say, my dear Albert, said Tobie, after trying, but in vain, to fix his little glass in his right eye,
gpt
I, in love with her? upon my word! Do you suppose that I am idiotic enough to fall in love with a woman again? I love them when they are pretty; but it lasts just so long as is necessary to triumph over them; that is quite enough. Mon Dieu! that is the best way to succeed with women. But if you really love them, you become melancholy, jealous, a bore to your friends; and your fair one no longer listens to you, and, what is worse, deceives you. Madame Baldimer is very beautiful; I have been attentive to her, as to many others.
human
Yes, rejoined Tobie, sucking the gold head of his cane;
gpt
Did Madame Baldimer listen to you favorably?
human
Why, not less so than to others. I have already told you that she plays the coquette with everybody and listens to no one.
gpt
I should say that the gentleman who was with her in the _citadine_ just now might think differently.
human
You say that there was a man with her; I saw no one.
gpt
Because your sight is not good, apparently.
human
Ah! there's Désilly, the illustrious Désilly.