too, you know don't you that we should never do this again. If anyone found us I would be in an awful mess.
"But there's no one here but us. And if we never do it again you'll never teach me.' "You know enough already you little rabbit.' "What have you done with men Bella.' "And what have you done with girls Balthazar."
"Please Bella, what have you done."
"You mustn't ask me questions like that."
"I must know."
"Why must you know."
"Because if you did I may never speak to you again."
"O dear. Turn around your head. Come on. Turn around.
You're quite spoiled you know. Look at me. Are you jealous.
A little aren't you."
"I'm not discussing it. Do you do this. Without your clothes and be in bed with other men."
"And I'm not discussing it."
"If you've been like this with other men I will kill myself.
With arsenic."
"O Lord."
"I will."
"Snuggle up close and comfy to me. Don't let me hear you say that again. Or I will be off to Bristol or something like that and go on a ship. To the south seas."
"Bella I love you so much. So awfully awfully much."
"There you mustn't cry. You really mustn't."
"And I never want you to go away for ever and ever."
"I'm here now. You crazy little rabbit. I'm here."
"If you don't stay with me I don't want to grow up at all."
"But you little rabbit you can't stop growing up. You'll know all sorts of girls. Through a whole bunch of years. Innocent and smiling ones who would make you think butter would not melt in their mouths."
"I don't care, if there isn't you I don't want anybody. No one could ever take your place."
"O God."
"Are you cross."
"No no I'm not cross. Just crosseyed. How are you to understand. I just feel I'm somehow sitting on my backside.
In the middle of some very grand ball. And I can't get up off the floor. For months and months. I've wanted to just seize and hug you and hold you to me. And I knew, I knew this would happen. That we never should have been left alone.
That all it needed was bumping into you at night in the hall or just the nosey moments in the evening when you get long faced when I tell you not to read my letters. And each time you sulked I had to do everything I could to stop myself hugging and kissing you. Don't you see how it's been for me.
O but don't you get cross now."
"I'm not cross."
"You are."
"I'm not."
"O Balthazar. Don't you see. To you the world is just as you find it. Just as each day it's time to get up, to dress, to eat, to sleep. The trip to school. And to Paris. And here we kind of live in a little estate all of our own. Larking about in each other's hair. But the world is not like that. Like we are now.
And if we were ever found. Really like we are now. God if we ever were. Did I lock the door."
"Yes. And you hung up the keys under the telephone."
"O God. I don't even know that I may be doing something criminal. I don't know but I might be."
"I am a criminal then too and we are still together."
"Yes. Till they cart us off to prison. And sling us into cells."
"Uncle Edouard would see that we were freed."
"Uncle Edouard, I wonder. Don't depend upon him."
"Why do you say that."
"I just do. He's nice. But don't depend upon anybody Balthazar."
"Did he attempt to entice you."
"O nothing. Three years ago."
"What did he do."
"Jealous jealous."
"I'm not. What did he try."
"Nothing. He invited me to the Bois. And so you came too.
That's all. And once to Biarritz. And I said I went nowhere without my boyfriend. And he laughed and was quite nice.
And probably he did want to take me to bed. You see how difficult you have made me for other men. And then one day you'll see a creature without whom you think you cannot live.
And she'll throw her arms up and spin about and raise her skirt on her legs. And you'll like what you see. And she'll look beautiful and flutter her eyes. Put rouge on her cheeks. And tell you nice little lies. And squeal when you feel her breast.
And as she shrinks away she'll say come hither come
"But there's no one here but us. And if we never do it again you'll never teach me.' "You know enough already you little rabbit.' "What have you done with men Bella.' "And what have you done with girls Balthazar."
"Please Bella, what have you done."
"You mustn't ask me questions like that."
"I must know."
"Why must you know."
"Because if you did I may never speak to you again."
"O dear. Turn around your head. Come on. Turn around.
You're quite spoiled you know. Look at me. Are you jealous.
A little aren't you."
"I'm not discussing it. Do you do this. Without your clothes and be in bed with other men."
"And I'm not discussing it."
"If you've been like this with other men I will kill myself.
With arsenic."
"O Lord."
"I will."
"Snuggle up close and comfy to me. Don't let me hear you say that again. Or I will be off to Bristol or something like that and go on a ship. To the south seas."
"Bella I love you so much. So awfully awfully much."
"There you mustn't cry. You really mustn't."
"And I never want you to go away for ever and ever."
"I'm here now. You crazy little rabbit. I'm here."
"If you don't stay with me I don't want to grow up at all."
"But you little rabbit you can't stop growing up. You'll know all sorts of girls. Through a whole bunch of years. Innocent and smiling ones who would make you think butter would not melt in their mouths."
"I don't care, if there isn't you I don't want anybody. No one could ever take your place."
"O God."
"Are you cross."
"No no I'm not cross. Just crosseyed. How are you to understand. I just feel I'm somehow sitting on my backside.
In the middle of some very grand ball. And I can't get up off the floor. For months and months. I've wanted to just seize and hug you and hold you to me. And I knew, I knew this would happen. That we never should have been left alone.
That all it needed was bumping into you at night in the hall or just the nosey moments in the evening when you get long faced when I tell you not to read my letters. And each time you sulked I had to do everything I could to stop myself hugging and kissing you. Don't you see how it's been for me.
O but don't you get cross now."
"I'm not cross."
"You are."
"I'm not."
"O Balthazar. Don't you see. To you the world is just as you find it. Just as each day it's time to get up, to dress, to eat, to sleep. The trip to school. And to Paris. And here we kind of live in a little estate all of our own. Larking about in each other's hair. But the world is not like that. Like we are now.
And if we were ever found. Really like we are now. God if we ever were. Did I lock the door."
"Yes. And you hung up the keys under the telephone."
"O God. I don't even know that I may be doing something criminal. I don't know but I might be."
"I am a criminal then too and we are still together."
"Yes. Till they cart us off to prison. And sling us into cells."
"Uncle Edouard would see that we were freed."
"Uncle Edouard, I wonder. Don't depend upon him."
"Why do you say that."
"I just do. He's nice. But don't depend upon anybody Balthazar."
"Did he attempt to entice you."
"O nothing. Three years ago."
"What did he do."
"Jealous jealous."
"I'm not. What did he try."
"Nothing. He invited me to the Bois. And so you came too.
That's all. And once to Biarritz. And I said I went nowhere without my boyfriend. And he laughed and was quite nice.
And probably he did want to take me to bed. You see how difficult you have made me for other men. And then one day you'll see a creature without whom you think you cannot live.
And she'll throw her arms up and spin about and raise her skirt on her legs. And you'll like what you see. And she'll look beautiful and flutter her eyes. Put rouge on her cheeks. And tell you nice little lies. And squeal when you feel her breast.
And as she shrinks away she'll say come hither come
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