“Has he much wit?”
“He talks little, but well.”
“He is religious, I think you said?”
“Yes; he has founded a library and a school for the benefit of the workmen, and he visits the poor. All this affords him many opportunities of meeting Mlle. Eugénie. She gives him books for his library, paper and pens for his school, and they agree upon the families to visit.”
“Ha! he is a knowing fellow. He thinks that a good way to please my cousin and to see her. Then Eugénie is more religious than she used to be?”
“It seems so, but you know it is not easy to tell what is going on in mademoiselle’s heart.”
“Fanny, you have rendered me a service I shall never forget. It was time to come—high time. I am even afraid I am too late. Have you detected anything to make you think her in love with him already?”
“She began by regarding him with aversion. This softened into indifference. What further change there is I do not know.”
“What caused her aversion?”