"Have you at last become a convert to my fixed idea?" she added after a second.
"What fixed idea? It seems to me you have a great many!"
"Yes! But I speak of a good one—my best one, at least—of your marriage!"
"What! again, cousin?" said Camors, who, now assured of his danger and its nature, marched with a firmer foot over the burning soil.
"Yes, again, cousin; and I will tell you another thing—I have found the person."
"Ah! Then I shall run away!"
She met his smile with an imperious glance.
"Then you still adhere to that plan?" said Camors, laughing.
"Most firmly! I need not repeat to you my reasons—having preached about it all winter—in fact so much so as to disturb the General, who suspects some mystery between us."
"The General? Indeed!"