‘God save the King! Do you know how beautiful you are? Where can I imbibe? Would you grant me the first dance?’
‘To your first question, I answer: “Thank you”; to the second, I say: “Go straight ahead and ask the head waiter” and to the third, my answer is “I am busy”!"
With Byron having stepped aside, Irina was loudly beckoned by an agitated Beyle.
‘Don’t you feel well, Henri? Are you still shaken by this morning?’
‘Where’s Angela?’ he asked, not answering the question.
‘She’ll soon arrive, but not alone’.
‘Why have you invited that old crashing bore she calls her husband?"
‘I would have caused offence were I to have only invited her, don’t you find?’
‘It is his wont to hate parties, but Angela has wanted to bring him with her. Why?’
‘You’re an intelligent man, Henr
