"'In England,' she had said almost at the beginning of this new friendship, 'I could see you frequently without any difficulty. Here, I do not know ...'
"'But since we are going away?'
"With no relatives, she was lost in Paris, as I was in my unhappy home life."
"June 27th: Little Marie Louise asked me why I no longer take her out walking in the evening."
"June 29th: Visited the Carnavalet Museum with Anne de Sézery. The story of the Revolution is an endless source of pathos which one can never exhaust.
"We have agreed that next winter I shall show her an unknown Paris, the Paris which bears traces of the long centuries and of great men. With her, interchange of thought is unlimited. There is always a little embarrassment when I arrive; the first subject of conversation dispels it. She assures me that I make her live an intellectual life such as one does not know in London."
"June 30th: The farewell.
"'You will marry in England.'
"'I think not.'
"'However, you will marry.'