"Well, niece, you shall marry the young count, if that meets your views!"
"Oh! there's time for that! for my father surely would not desire to force my inclination, if he were alive."
"I cannot say what your father would have done if he had lived; but I know very well that I have no desire to torment you."
"You are so good, aunt!"
"Why, yes, I am tolerably good!"
"And do you know this young Comte de Marvejols?"
"I have seen him two or three times in company."
"What is he like, aunt?"
"A very good-looking young man; very well built, and with a decidedly rakish air. But young men sometimes assume those airs in society, in order to give themselves an appearance of aplomb and self-assurance; very often they mean nothing at all!"
"Well, if this Monsieur Léodgard desires to become my husband, I suppose that he will come to pay court to me first."