Yes, I know well that being nothing, that having nothing, it seems as if I were only desirous of his money.

In a way, it is true it is also for his wealth that I wish to marry him.

I tell you this because it is necessary that you should know me thoroughly.

Ah! to become rich by him and with him, to owe all my happiness to him, to live in the sweetness and splendour of luxury, to be free in our loving home, and to have no more sorrow, no misery around us! That is my ideal! Since he has loved me I fancy myself dressed in heavy brocades, as ladies wore in olden days; I have on my arms and around my neck strings of pearls and precious stones; I have horses and carriages; groves in which I take long walks, followed by pages.

Whenever I think of him my dream recommences, and I say to myself, 'This must all come to pass, for it perfects my desire to become a queen.' Is it, then, Monseigneur, a bad thing to love him more because he can gratify all my childish wishing by showering down miraculous floods of gold upon me as in fairy-tales ?" He saw then that she rose up proudly, with a charming, stately air of a true princess, in spite of her real simplicity.