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 was ready for bed, when I heard her cry out:

Who's there? Is it you, Angelica?… What, it is you, Gamiani! Oh… madame, I was far from expecting

Of course, you avoid me, you drive me away; I have had to resort to stratagem. I have sent your servants away on false pretexts, so now, here I am.

I cannot understand you, and still less can I account for your persistence; but if I have kept what I know of you a secret, my flat refusal to receive you ought to have told you plainly enough that your presence here is uncalled for and hateful to me… I spurn you, I detest you… Leave me, I pray of you, avoid creating a scandal.

My arrangements are made, my mind is