It's all fixed and settled, eh ?" "Of course," laughed Carlotta.
"Have you made up your mind what he is to be like ?" I could see the unconscionable Don Juan instinctively preen himself peacock fashion.
"I am going to marry Seer Marcous," said Carlotta, calmly.
She made this announcement not as a jest, not as a wish, but as the commonplace statement of a fact.

There was a moment of stupefied silence.

Pasquale who had just struck a match to light a cigarette stared at me and let the flame burn his fingers.

I stared at Carlotta, speechless.

The colossal impudence of it! "I am sorry to contradict you," said I, at last, with some acidity, "but you are going to do no such thing." "I am not going to marry you ?" "Certainly not." "Oh!" said Carlotta, in a tone of disappointment.
Pasquale rose, brought his heels together, put his hand on his heart and made her a low bow.
"Will you have me instead of this stray bit of Stonehenge ?" "Very well," said Carlotta.
I seized Pasquale by the arm.