MONTRICHARD, LÉONIE

20 Léonie, V apercevant. Pardonnez-moi, monsieur le baron ... je croyais ma tante dans ce salon, je venais . . .

13 ce: here ce is a neuter, though a lady is meant. It is customary in French to use occasionally, either in jest or from contempt, ce in a neuter sense for a person of either gender, particularly if that person is younger than the speaker. Hence ce = Léonie^ here.

16 romanesque, from roman, "novel," must not be taken to be the same as romantique, "romantic," although the two words have something in common.