For if she had waited until she had fallen
in love with someone, it might have happened that _he_ would not have
fallen in love with her, and then there would have been the devil to
pay. For it happens very rarely that both parties are equally in love."
"2. She forges a bill. That was foolish, but it is not true that it
was done for the husband's sake only, for she has never loved him; it
would have been the truth if she had said that she had done it for him,
herself and the children. Is that clear?"
"3. That he wants to embrace her after the ball is only a proof of his
love for her, and there is no wrong in that; but it should not be done
on the stage. "_Il y a des choses qui se font mais que ne se disent
point_,' as the French say, Moreover, if the poet had been fair, he
would also save shown an opposite case. '_La petite chienne veut, mais
le grand chien ne veut pas_,' says Ollendorf. (Vide the long boat at
Dalaro.)"
"4. That she, when she discovers that her husband is a fool (and that
he is when he offers to condone her offence because it has not leaked
out) decides to leave her children 'not considering herself worthy of
bringing them up,' is a not very clever trick of coquetry.
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