"We have found ourselves, I am sure, extremely happy in your and your daughter's charming society.

It is a pleasure added to my life to have made your acquaintance; and I hope that further intimacy may assure me your friendship.

In the mean while, let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind reception." As he finished the sentence, Lenora and Gustave joined them.
"My nephew," continued Denecker, "will confess, as I have done, that he has spent few happier hours than those that are just gone.

I hope, Monsieur de Vlierbeck, that you and your charming daughter will return our visit and dine with us.

Yet I shall have to ask your pardon for postponing the pleasure it will afford us till I return from Frankfort, where I am summoned, the day after to-morrow, on urgent business.