The wedding can be arranged then as speedily as you wish.

I give her to you.

I consent to your marriage.

What could woman do more ?" "That is all very well," the Count said, "all very well indeed, but I do not understand how it is that a young lady could disappear from her home like this, and that her guardian should know nothing about it.
Where could she have gone to?
You say that she had very little money.
Why should she go?
Who was unkind to her ?" "All that I did," the Princess answered, "was to tell her that she must marry you." The Count twirled his moustache.
"Is it likely," he demanded, "that that should drive her away from her home?
The idea of marriage, it may terrify these young misses at the first thought, but in their hearts they are very, very glad.

Ah!" he added softly, "I have had some experience.