At last, from fear that he might take some foolish step, and fall in love with someone beneath him in position, he wished to have him here, that he might be married at once." "Very well," said Angelique, who did not yet understand.
"Such a marriage had been proposed even before his arrival, and all preliminaries were settled yesterday, so that the Abbe Cornille formally announced that in the autumn Felicien would wed Mademoiselle Claire de Voincourt.

You know very well the Hotel de Voincourt there, close to the Bishop's Palace.

The family are very intimate with Monseigneur.

On both sides, nothing better could be hoped for, either in the way of name or of fortune.

The Abbe himself highly approves of the union." The young girl no longer listened to these reasons of the fitness of things.