After the first frost, the thumb of my glove wore through, so I went to have it remade. On the way back I stopped in front of a shop window twice. Neither time did I mean to buy anything.

• Abram RosenI cut the pattern for that glove with my own hands, twelve years back. The hand stays the same. Only the glove grows old.
  ÉloïseThe hand has aged too. Starting from where it doesn't show.
• Lucien ValoisStop twice at the same window and you already want to buy it.
  ÉloïseJust carry the goods. Don't go opening the person along with them.