human
Oh! it's to be a long trip, eh? You want to go into the country, I take it, bourgeois?
gpt
The ten francs are to pay you for answering my questions briefly: a lady has just got out of your cab?
human
Yes, bourgeois; a pretty little lady--good style. I know what I'm talking about.
gpt
Where did you take her from?
human
Where did I take her from? why, from here, bourgeois, about an hour and a quarter ago; it wasn't quite a half, but the little woman pays generous, without haggling.
gpt
She took you by the hour, then, when she started?
human
Just so.
gpt
Where did you go with her? Now, don't lie to me!
human
You pay too well for me to lie to you! Besides, there's no mystery about it; I took her to the Jardin des Plantes.
gpt
To the Jardin des Plantes?
human
Yes, bourgeois; in front of the gate, on the water side. She got out there and told me to wait, and then she went into the garden.
gpt
Alone?
human
Yes, yes, alone when she went in; but when she came out, after a quarter of an hour or more, she wasn't alone then.
gpt
Who was with her?
human
A gentleman--a young man.
gpt
A young man? What was he like--his dress--his features?
human
Oh! excuse me! but you don't suppose I took his photograph, do you? He was dressed, like everybody else, in a frock-coat. I thought he was rather a good-looking fellow. That's all I can tell you.
gpt
And this man--this gentleman--this frock-coat--he came out with the lady, you say? Did she have his arm?
human
Oh! as to that, I can't say; I was on my box, and I didn't see them till they were close to my cab, and the young man helped the lady in.
gpt
And got in with her?
human
No, no; he didn't get in--he said good-bye.
gpt
How did he say it? Did he embrace her?--did he kiss her hand?
human
Oh! bless your heart! I was straightening out my reins, and I didn't see them embrace. The lady called out to me: 'Take me back to where you brought me from!'--The young man shut the door and went off--but, yes, I remember now that he said to her, as he went away: 'Thank you, thank you a thousand times for coming!'--Now, where'll you go, bourgeois?
gpt
To the Jardin des Plantes, to the same spot where that lady got out.
human
It is absolutely certain now--she too deceives me--and she dared to tell me that she loved me! Ah! we don't deceive those whom we love! It is all over--yes, all over, this time! I won't see her again, for she would tell me another lie; she would invent some fable to make me believe that she is innocent! And perhaps I should be idiot enough to believe her. But, no, I do not propose to be her dupe again; I will see her no more. But that man with whom she makes assignations so early in the day--ah! if I could find out who he is, I would kill him! And yet, he is not the guilty one, for he loves her. But not as I loved her--oh, no!