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Because I am happy to set lovers at variance. Is she you love here?

She is.

I will find her, and, if she be handsome enough to pique my vanity, will render you faithless. I shall walk this evening in the orange-grove; and I tell you so, expressly, that you may come and meet me there.

So saying, she rose, and Philamir going to detain her, she said, Do not hold me; do you not see, by my air of affectation, I want to make you believe I think you a dangerous man, and therefore flee from you?

Azema then, with a very modest and serious air, made a low curtsey, and retired.

Really, said Chrisel, this little lady is the most extraordinary and odd kind of person I ever met. Women are all coquettes and deceitful, but she is the only one I have ever seen, who was indiscreet enough to own it; her wish so seduce, and her excessive imprudence, make her truly whimsical and original. Were I in your place, my lord, I would be sure to meet her in the orange-grove.

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