Oh! No, no, Marius, hush! You do not need pay for my laundry. I did not know it was you, or I would not have said such things. Please, it is me you must forgive. I have a cruel tongue, and should not have said such things to you.

There is nothing for me to forgive you for. Indeed, it is you that must forgive me. [She looks up at him with wide, eager eyes, the way she always looks at him.]