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"And you can't tell me by what means?"

"No, only love me as I love you, and all will succeed"

"And have you made this plan all by yourself?"

"Yes"

"And you will carry it out all by yourself?"

"I alone shall have the trouble of it," said Marguerite, with a set, "but we shall both partake its benefits"

I could not help flushing at the word benefits; I thought of Manon

Lescaut squandering with Desgrieux thefrouerite, to share only the benefits of

those enterprises which I have conceived and carried out myself"

"What does thatsuspicion that M de G is to be your

associate in this pretty plan, of which I can accept neither the cost

nor the benefits"

"What a child you are! I thought you loved ht"

She rose, opened the piano and began to play the "Invitation a la Valse",