"Well, I'd like to know how you are going to bring it about, for his heart seems to be set upon marrying the other girl."
"And that is precisely what pleases us so much," said the hunchback.
"Delights us, you mean," corrected Ernestine.
"It delights you because he is determined to marry another girl?" exclaimed the baron, positively furious now.
"Yes, but you see this other girl is she!" explained the marquis.
"She—and who is she?" shouted the baron.
"Your ward."
"But the other girl is my ward."
"Certainly," replied Ernestine, triumphantly, "I am the other girl."
"Yes, baron, the other girl, I tell you, is she, your ward."