"Let us state that no untoward event disturbed this family meeting." And he added: "Only the absence of the clergy was remarked. No doubt the priests understand progress in another fashion. Just as you please, messieurs the followers of Loyola!"
IX.
A Woodland Idyll.
S
IX weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he appeared.
The day after the show he had said to himself:
"We mustn't go back too soon; that would be a mistake."
And at the end of a week he had gone off hunting. After the hunting he had thought he was too late, and then he reasoned thus:
"If from the first day she loved me, she must, from impatience to see me again, love me more. Let's go on with it!"