Cosette, relieved and pleased, smiles up at him in the nighttime dimness.
"I am glad!"
"No, I don't think I would like to be a great society hostess. This was lovely! It was wonderful, it was grand. But I wouldn't want something like this every day. It's not a special treat if it happens all the time. And I like having a quiet life, you know, I do. I used to not realize how quiet it was. Now I do. Sometimes I--" feel so young and ignorant, she's going to say, but that's not what she wants to talk about right now; she changes course midsentence. "--but I do like it, you know. That way a party is a wonderful exciting thing."
And she only somewhat realizes this, since she hasn't experienced it before, but she's going to have to spend a couple of days recharging her social batteries from all of this.
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"I am glad!"
"No, I don't think I would like to be a great society hostess. This was lovely! It was wonderful, it was grand. But I wouldn't want something like this every day. It's not a special treat if it happens all the time. And I like having a quiet life, you know, I do. I used to not realize how quiet it was. Now I do. Sometimes I--" feel so young and ignorant, she's going to say, but that's not what she wants to talk about right now; she changes course midsentence. "--but I do like it, you know. That way a party is a wonderful exciting thing."
And she only somewhat realizes this, since she hasn't experienced it before, but she's going to have to spend a couple of days recharging her social batteries from all of this.