Then feeling ill-inclined to discuss the matter with her aunt, she left the room.

Madame Voss, who had been assured by her husband that Marie had no real objection to Adrian Urmand, did not understand it all.
'I am sure Marie is unhappy,' she said to her husband when he came in at noon that day.
'Yes,' said he.

'It seems strange, but it is so, I fancy, with the best of our young women.

Her feeling of modesty--of bashfulness if you will--is outraged by being told that she is to admit this man as her lover.

She won't make the worse wife on that account, when he gets her home.' Madame Voss was not quite sure that her husband was right.