A man meets a distressed woman at a masked ball,
and falls in love with her. She proves to herself that she
is being cheated on, and acts.
This is a
is a very short story published with Le Cocher de Cabriolet
under the title Souvenirs d'Antony. It is one of
Dumas' only stories with an erotic (as opposed to romantic)
flavor, but it is very slight.