“Yet it does not seem to me that I show a disposition to make you believe that I could refuse you anything.”
“It is just that which is the cause of my embarrassment and reserve; I fear to pain you at the moment when I would show you all the gratitude and love in my heart.”
“If you are going to give me pain, it is better not to make me wait.”
She hesitated; then, before an impatient gesture, she decided to speak.
“I wish to ask you how you mean to be married?”
He looked at her in surprise.
“But, like every one else!”
“Every one?” she asked, persistently.
“Is there any other way of being married?”
“Yes.”