“You are good and bad! You have much imagination and very little; you are at the same time very brave and very timid. You have a loving nature, but it is asleep, and little will-power.”
“Little and... a great deal,” said Cæsar.
“No, little.”
“Do you believe that I have little will-power?”
“I am telling you what your hand says.”
“Look here. My hand’s opinion doesn’t interest me so much as yours, because you are an intelligent woman. Do you believe I have no will-power?”
“A sibyl doesn’t discuss her affirmations.”
“Now you are worried about your lack of will-power,” said Mlle. de Sandoval, mockingly.
“Yes, I am, a bit.”
“Well, I think you have will-power enough,” she retorted; “what you do lack is a little more amiability.”