EUGENIE — How thoroughly you persuade me, my angel, what astraight way you make with my prejudices, what short work you makeof all the false principles my mother planted in me! Oh, I would bemarried tomorrow in order immediately to put your maxims into use.How seductive they are, how true, and how much I love them! Onlyone thing troubles me, dear one, in what you have just said to me,and as I understand it not at all, I beg you to explain: yourhusband, you declare, does not, when he takes his pleasure withyou, strike an attitude such as would produce children: what then,pray tell, does he do?
MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — My husband was already advanced inyears when I married him. On our wedding night he gave me notice ofhis fancies, the while assuring me that, for his part, never wouldhe interf
