From the sanatorium where she is being treated for tuberculosis, a young woman replies to the letter she has just received, in which her lover announces that he has decided to break off their relationship to marry another woman. Exhausted by her illness and torn apart by a love that has been abruptly cut short, the narrator rebels against the banality that emanates from the phrases of the man she had until then considered her great love. With a dry and sharp style, Déjeme is, more than a settling of scores, an investigation into loneliness, disappointment, seduction and the nature of romantic and carnal love in which Sauvageot does not give in to self-pity or pathos: her courage and modernity remain unquestionable a century later. Praised by great writers of the time, such as Paul Valéry, Clara Malraux, René Crevel, Robert Brasillach or Paul Claudel, Déjeme is the testimony of a strong woman who, refusing to play the submissive role that her lover assigns to her when he proposes to exchange love for a supposedly comforting friendship, does not conform to the restrictive moral and social codes of the time.