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From this came a certain familiarity ; she began to call him Vautrot , or `` My good Vautrot , '' while he zealously performed all her little commissions . He manifested for her a great deal of respectful attention , and even refrained from indulging in the sceptical sneers which he knew displeased her . Happy to witness this reform and to testify her gratitude , she invited him to remain on two or three evenings when he came to take his leave , and talked with him of books and the theatres . When her mourning kept her at home , M. de Camors passed the two first evenings with her until ten o'clock . But this effort fatigued him , and the poor young woman , who had already erected an edifice for the future on this frail basis , had the mortification of observing that on the third evening he had resumed his bachelor habits . This was a great blow to her , and her sadness became greater than it had been up to that time ; so much so in fact , that solitude was almost unbearable . She had hardly been long enough in Paris to form intimacies .