She tells me that she is going to marry the Count de Brensault, that she has lost her fortune and she is evidently very unhappy.

Will you forgive me if I ask you whether this marriage is being forced upon her ?" The Princess hesitated.
"No," she said, "it is not that.

Jeanne told him of her loss of fortune.

She told him, too, without any prompting from me, that she would marry him if he still wished it.

That is all that I know." The Duke bowed.