"I suppose I must not call while your father is absent," he resumed; "and I have found some delightful volumes in Tauchnitz, which I should like to give you."
"Can you not send them?" she asked, looking at him with laughing eyes. "I want books very much; no one gives me books but you."
"Then I must bring them myself."
"Why not? I shall be very glad to see you, so will Madame Weber."
"Thank you! May I come to-morrow?"
"To-morrow? No; to-morrow I go with Antoinette to visit the good ladies of the Annonciades, the convent where we were at school. But come on Sunday if you like. On Monday my dear father will be with me again; then he will be able to tell me when we can go to England."
"But you will return to Paris?"
"I do not know; nothing is certain."
"I hope you will promise certainly to dance with me at this ball."
"Shall you be here when it takes place?"