“Oh! it was indecent, was it? I see that I must not do at my wedding party or to my wife anything that the most rigid rules of chastity do not permit. I trust, however, that you have not suppressed anything else.”
“Oh! no, brother! besides, I am sure that to-day you have no desire to——”
“To what?”
“Why, to——”
“To what, in heaven’s name? Finish.”
“Why, a desire to—with your wife—— Oh! you know what I mean.”
“The deuce! surely you are joking, my dear girl? Do people no longer marry for that here? is that suppressed, too?”
“No, my dear, no! but a man generally leaves his wife in peace the first day. The poor child has been so excited!”
“Yes; it is astounding how excited she looks!”
“You must give her time to recover herself.”