She jumps up
distracted and opens the door wide for me: slowly, like one exiled, I
cross its threshold and once outside, laugh to find myself so superior
to them all.
TOBY-DOG, (_who hasn't been listening, yawns_)
What a sad week, eh? I don't know what it is to take a walk any more. I
haven't taken any pleasure in eating either, since She fell from her
horse.
KIKI-THE-DEMURE
Heavens, one can love people and care for one's stomach too.
TOBY-DOG, (_with ardor_)
Not I! When She screamed and fell from her horse, I felt the heart
crack inside me.
KIKI-THE-DEMURE
That affair couldn't have ended otherwise. One doesn't go climbing up on
a horse! People don't do such things! I see nothing but extravagance
around me. To begin with, a horse is a fearful monstrosity.
TOBY-DOG, (_indignantly_)
Did one ever hear the like!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_peremptorily_)
I happen to have had the opportunity of making a very close study of
one....
TOBY-DOG, (_aside_)
He makes me laugh!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE
... It was the farmer's horse that grazed in the meadow. My life, for a
whole month, was embittered by that roving mountain.
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