human
It may be that your injured arm will pain you if you walk, monsieur. Will you not allow me to take you home, or wherever you wish to go?
gpt
You are a thousand times too kind, madame; but I do not desire to cause you so much trouble, and I assure you that my hand doesn't pain me at all.
human
No. 40, Rue de Paradis-Poissonnière.
gpt
Why on earth did I refuse to let her drive me home? What a fool a man is, sometimes! You long for a thing--for it would have given me great pleasure to spend a longer time with her--and you refuse it! Why? I haven't any good reason to give myself, even. But, yes, I have one! She is good-looking, I feel certain that she would attract me, that I should speedily fall in love with her; and I do not propose to fall in love again! But does that purpose involve a resolution not to form an agreeable intimacy? And then, what right have I to assume that this lady would have listened to me?--Let us see what her name is. As for her address, I remember that; she told the cabman loud enough.
human
Nathalie Dermont--nothing more; and there's no _widow_ on the card. Why is that omitted? But still, if her husband has been dead some time, she's not bound to go on styling herself _widow_. She's an exceedingly attractive woman! A pretty face and figure, and nothing stupid about her! Ah! that is the principal thing to guard against; for a stupid woman is deadly! However, I haven't wasted my day, at all events.