But in spite of that, is he really a suitable husband for you ?" "Yes, if I love him." "I am trying to talk sensibly to you, and you, on the contrary--Understand me, Bettina; I have an experience of the world which you can not have.

Since our arrival in Paris, we have been launched into a very brilliant, very animated, very aristocratic society.

You might have been already, if you had liked, marchioness or princess." "Yes, but I did not like." "It would not matter to you to be called Madame Reynaud ?" "Not in the least, if I love him." "Ah! you return always to--" "Because that is the true question.

There is no other.

Now I will be sensible in my turn.