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 "You left me to my fate! What might not have happened to me alone in the streets of Paris!"

"Mademoiselle has perhaps been alone in the streets of Paris before—"

"Silence, Angéline! How dare you say that I have been alone in the streets of Paris before! Your language, as well as your conduct, is intolerable!"

"I beg Mademoiselle to remember—"

"I remember nothing but that, being sent out in your charge, you basely deserted me, and you shall answer for it; I beg of you to remember that."

Angéline was reduced by this tirade to surly silence, and, not bearing in mind that Fifi was really a very clever little actress, actually thought she was in a boiling rage. Fifi was meanwhile laughing in her sleeve.