17/19 Can you certify to that ?" "Positively. Her refusal has completely crushed him." "Very well. Then I mean to make Madame Fontaine marry him--always supposing there is no other man in his way." "My dear aunt, how you talk! At Madame Fontaine's age! With a grown-up daughter!" "My dear nephew, you know absolutely nothing about women. Counting by years, I grant you they grow old. Counting by sensations, they remain young to the end of their days. |