'Most certainly,' replied her aunt, 'how could you imagine we should leave you behind?
But I see you are thinking of the Chevalier; he is not yet, I believe, informed of the journey, but he very soon will be so.

Signor Montoni is gone to acquaint Madame Clairval of our journey, and to say, that the proposed connection between the families must from this time be thought of no more.' The unfeeling manner, in which Madame Montoni thus informed her niece, that she must be separated, perhaps for ever, from the man, with whom she was on the point of being united for life, added to the dismay, which she must otherwise have suffered at such intelligence.

When she could speak, she asked the cause of the sudden change in Madame's sentiments towards Valancourt, but the only reply she could obtain was, that the Signor had forbade the connection, considering it to be greatly inferior to what Emily might reasonably expect.
'I now leave the affair entirely to the Signor,' added Madame Montoni, 'but I must say, that M.Valancourt never was a favourite with me, and I was overpersuaded, or I should not have given my consent to the connection.

I was weak enough--I am so foolish sometimes!--to suffer other people's uneasiness to affect me, and so my better judgment yielded to your affliction.

But the Signor has very properly pointed out the folly of this, and he shall not have to reprove me a second time.