9/19 But see a moment: I am waiting to see the impediment dispersed, which puts her at an inequality with the world: and then I speak to all whom it concerns--not before: for her sake. How is it now? And when I am forced to confess, that the mother, the mother of the girl he seeks in marriage, is not yet in that state herself, probably at that very instant the obstacle has crumbled to dust! I say, probably: I have information--doctors, friends, attendants--they all declare it cannot last outside a week. But you are here--true, I could swear! a touch of a hand tells me. A woman's hand? |