"Quite probable!—some of those flowers are so curious. Look at this one; it looks like a little lady!"
"I hope that you love him too, my good Pierre?"
"Quite probable, too!"
After a pause, she shook her head:
"And why should I love him?"
"What a question!" said Lucan. "Why, because he is perfectly worthy of being loved; because he has every quality; intelligence, heart, and even beauty—finally, because you have married him."
"Monsieur de Lucan, will you allow me to tell you something confidentially?"
"I beg you to do so."
"That trip to Italy has been very injurious to me."
"In what way?"