With me it is a fixed idea that I must adore the man who will be my husband.

Well! I don't say that I adore Jean, no, not yet; but still it is beginning, Susie, and it is beginning so sweetly." "Bettina, it really makes me uneasy to see you in this state of excitement.

I do not deny that Monsieur Reynaud is much attached to you--" "Oh, more than that, more than that!" "Loves you, if you like; yes, you are right, you are quite right.

He loves you; and are you not worthy, my darling, of all the love that one can bear you?
As to Jean--it is progressing decidedly, here am I also calling him Jean--well! you know what I think of him.

I rank him very, very high.