toujours, still

4. le pauvre garçon. In this monologue Marivaux makes an interesting study of a woman's heart. She wants to drive away the idea with which Lisette has tinged her thoughts. She says herself that it is a valet of whom they hâve been speaking, and yet, when she sees him, he becomes cet objet, that is, that person, and one who may be loved.

Page 34. — 1. ne nous tutoyons plus. Silvia asks him not to call her tu, but her je t'en prie is an unconscious avowal of her sentiments, and Dorante perceives it.

2. Ni à moi continues the construction of y in the preceding sentence ('in your master's going away'); translate: nor if I am going either.

3. doit m'être indifférent, 'ought to be indiffèrent to me'. Nevertheless, she tries to discourage Dorante, and when the latter expresses his sorrow and confesses that ha tas, taken a prétest.

because he wished to see her, she says to herself that it would make no différence, il n'en serait ni plus ni moins, if she were to be angry.

4. à moins que l'esprit ne me tourne, unies s I lose my sensés. — , mes dispositions, my state or j rame of mind (in the matter).

Page 35. — 1. cela ne ressemblerait plus à rien, that would be compromising.