"Yes, indeed I do!"
"You know what I have been, you know what I am?"
"Yes, I know."
"You are not deceived in me?"
"No."
"You will not regret it?"
"No! no!"
"Then give me your hand. It's very ridiculous, and I hardly expected it; but, no matter, I am your wife."
She took the pen and signed, as a dutiful wife should do, below her husband's signature.
"Thanks, Catherine, thanks!" cried Pagolo; "you will see how happy I will make you."