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"A Woman of Paris" 181
Pierre comes in and is informed by the maid that Marie is busy. He is announced and Marie comes out. Nonchalantly he helps himself to some chocolates, offers the box to Marie, and when she refuses, he suggests: "Ask the gentleman in the next room if he would care for some." Marie replies, "Why should I explain? You wouldn't understand." — "You jump at conclusions. I understand perfectly." Marie smiles, "You're too clever." As they kiss he warns, "Only be careful," pats her, and leaves. Jean comes out, with his choice, among her gorgeous gowns, of the one she is to wear for her portrait. They part with a formal handshake.
"And the passing days brought about the final touches to Marie's portrait." Weary of posing in her beautiful evening gown and feathered headdress, Marie stretches and smilingly asks Jean if he too is tired. Jean shakes his head and goes on painting. Finally when he too yawns, Marie steps down off the platform. Covering the canvas Jean reminds her: "Now you promised not to look at it until it is finished." She playfully remarks that she means to see it when she has changed her dress. When, finally, she does look she sees that Jean has painted her as she used to be — a country girl in simple country clothes. "Why bring up the past?" — "Because I knew you better then." As she starts to leave, Jean stops her. "I love you, Marie, in spite of everything." His mother, entering with packages, hears Jean's avowal: "We can marry and begin a new life." She sits down dejectedly in the other room. Marie, saying it can never be, bids him goodbye.
The following scene is in Marie's apartment. Pierre, who has been toying with a saxophone, declares, "It isn't such a bad way. You have everything." Marie retorts, "Not everything." Pierre, raising his eyebrows, pats her head. "Poor little woman." As she goes to the window, he follows her. "The trouble is you don't know what you want." Below in the street, they observe a dismal family