By prudence, they did not dare make appointments, but looked forward to their wedding-day as a day of salvation, to be followed by an untroubled night.
It was their desire for calm slumber that made them wish for their union.

They had hesitated during the hours of indifference, both being oblivious of the egotistic and impassioned reasons that had urged them to the crime, and which were now dispelled.

It was in vague despair that they took the supreme resolution to unite openly.

At the bottom of their hearts they were afraid.

They had leant, so to say, one on the other above an unfathomable depth, attracted to it by its horror.