"You can have everything you want now, and the rank and position of viscountess as soon as I can get rid of her."
"Ah, yes! but when will that be?"
"Very, very soon, I hope. Just as soon as I can mature my plans."
"But what are they?"
"Scarcely to be breathed even here. The very walls have ears, you know."
"Tell me; what does the earl think of this marriage of yours?"
"So, so; he wrote me a cool letter, saying that he would have preferred that I should have married an Englishwoman of my own rank; but that since the lady was of respectable family and large fortune, he should welcome her as a daughter. And finally, that any sort of a decent marriage was better than—but let that pass!"
"Yes, let it pass. Beast!"
"Never mind, my angel. Your turn will come."
"Ah, surely, yes! But is he not expecting to welcome his wealthy daughter-in-law?"