By and by it will be so easy for us to be good friends after we have been separated some time." "Friends ?" Bosio spoke the one word again, with a sad and dreamy intonation.
"I asked Veronica this morning," continued Matilde, not heeding him, and beginning to speak more rapidly.

"You have no idea how very fond she is of you.

When I spoke of the marriage, she seemed to think it the most natural thing in the world.

She found arguments for it herself." "She ?" "Yes.

She said--what I have said to you--that there was no man whom she knew so well and liked so much as you, that of course she had never thought of marrying you, nor, indeed, of being married at all, but that, at the same time, she should think that you would make a very good husband.