Then you really have a lover? The first step always brings the worst consequences. Oh, the happiness of others! Well, let's have no bitterness. Oh, Madeleine, why am I not the guilty one this time? You are always so beautiful! I thought you were tired of me. Not for long, though? That's all buried in the past! Wasn't it worth the trouble, and the suffering we have to undergo now? I'm sorry, but I didn't begin this conversation. No, please! Let's—curse me, Madeleine say anything you like about me: I deserve it all! She? Dear child! She is much too afraid of what I might say to listen. You are mistaken this time, my dear. Seriously; and I'm more surprised than you at the fact—but it's true. I do suffer! I am frivolous and—compromising—that is all. Madeleine, you are the first who has come near tempting me. I feel myself weakening. Have you made up your mind? But, Madeleine— Madame Guérin! Madame Guérin! if I told you how much your note meant to me! How excited I was! I trembled when I read it! It was so charming of you! How well you know me! I adore you! Don't shake my faith in you! My children? I have none.

Marcel Monologue from Françoise's Luck

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