Roland.
"No.

I must own to being rather tired." And she spoke as if in gratitude to Jean and his mother, of all the pleasure she had derived from the expedition and the prawn-fishing.
"I ate my prawns this morning," she added, "and they were excellent.

If you felt inclined we might go again one of these days." The young man interrupted her: "Before we start on a second fishing excursion, suppose we complete the first ?" "Complete it?
It seems to me quite finished." "Nay, madame, I, for my part, caught something on the rocks of Saint Jouain which I am anxious to carry home with me." She put on an innocent and knowing look.
"You?
What can it be?
What can you have found ?" "A wife.

And my mother and I have come to ask you whether she had changed her mind this morning." She smiled: "No, monsieur.

I never change my mind." And then he held out his hand, wide open, and she put hers into it with a quick, determined movement.