"I think you will be happy to a bourgeois extent. He is a fine man."
"But do I need to promise you?" asked the girl. "Don't you know?"
"I shall be perfectly ashamed of you," said the Marquise d'Esclignac, "if you are anything but a woman of heart and decision in this matter."
Evidently she waited, and Julia Redmond, slightly bowing her lovely head in deference to the older lady who had not married her first love, said obediently:
"I promise to do as you wish, ma tante."
CHAPTER XXVI
CONGRATULATIONS
The Duc de Tremont saw what splendid stuff the captain in the —— Cavalry was made of by the young man's quick convalescence. Sabron could not understand why Robert lingered after the departure of the Marquise d'Esclignac, the Comtesse de la Maine and Miss Redmond. The presence of the young man would have been agreeable if it had not been for his jealously and his unhappiness.
They played piquet together. Sabron, in his right mind, thinner and paler, nevertheless very much of a man, now smoked his cigarettes and ate his three meals a day. He took a walk every day and was quite fit to leave the Orient. Tremont said:
"I think, Sabron, that we can sail this week."