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The result was that when Janet, failing to get an answer to her question, repeated anew her wish to accompany him abroad, he enfolded her in his arms and said:
"After all, why not?"
And after a fervent embrace, he added:
"Janet, I think you ought to face what's in store for us."
"Don't let's cross bridges, Claude," she pleaded.
"We'll get married, of course," he went on, unheeding her. "Frankly, my father won't like it. He'll probably make Rome howl. However, he'll get used to it in the end—especially when he meets you. But, though there's a storm ahead, you are brave and we'll weather it, I'm sure."
"Your father won't raise a storm," said Janet, with a strange smile, "for a small but important reason. Remember, I'm not going to be married."
"Janet!"
"You know I don't believe in it."