tout à l'heure, already

Page 105. — I. jouet; cf. nous avons joué avec la vie et la mort (page 106). The idea of playing is implied by the word badine in the title. Camille and Perdican hâve trifled with the love that was in their own hearts; Camille has also trifled with Perdican, and he with Rosette. The tragedy of ail this trifling is, first of ail, that the innocent victim suffers the conséquences. Camille has only herself to blâme for throwing away the love of Perdican. Impelled to trifling with

Rosette throug^h spite, Perdican seems to hâve overcome the résistance of Camille; but at the end his unworthy action is the means of bringing unhappiness to ail three.