And do you know that now the conditions have arisen which give me liberty to consider you my affianced ?' I had been expecting this, but yet was not prepared.

I stammered out that we would not discuss it then.
'Why not ?' said he.

'Do you know that we may marry here and now?
She has cast off both you and me.' 'It cannot be,' said I, firmly.

'She has not been fairly asked to be your wife in fact--to repeat the service lawfully; and until that has been done it would be grievous sin in me to accept you.' I had not noticed where the gondoliers were rowing us.

I suppose he had given them some direction unheard by me, for as I resigned myself in despairing indolence to the motion of the gondola, I perceived that it was taking us up the Canal, and, turning into a side opening near the Palazzo Grimani, drew up at some steps near the end of a large church.
'Where are we ?' said I.
'It is the Church of the Frari,' he replied.