It was Miss Bérard and her father who did not want to leave the palace without thanking him for the ticket he had sent them and from which they had benefited greatly over the past two weeks.
“Do you know, Sir,” said Diane,” that I didn't miss any of the cases in which you spoke?”
“I pity you, Miss,” Lucien replied coldly.
“And I'm not complaining. I was very pleased to hear you: you have immense talent. But it must be said, after the success you have just achieved, that I prefer you in the role of accuser rather than a defender.”
“Didn't you find me eloquent as a lawyer?”
“Very eloquent, on the contrary. But I'm an original, you know that. I admire above all in a speaker, calm, composure, a clear, incisive sentence going straight to the point, clear reasoning, easy deduction, logic, t
