Fantomina

The Lady often congratulates herself, throughout this story, for having found the perfect way to keep Beauplaisir entranced with her. To what degree do you think that her deceptions work? To what degree do you think that she is deluding herself?

At the beginning of the story, the Lady is described as both unworldly and unsupervised; we are told that it is for these reasons that she decides to disguise herself as a prostitute. What do her social circumstances have to do with her behavior? 

What is your sense of Beauplaisir, as a character? Do you think that he is caddish, decent, or both? Why do you think that the Lady is so drawn to him, being that she has very few illusions about him?