I know how, but I have not yet discovered why.
Now, if you know, tell me what did the chevalier mean, what did his wife mean, when they spoke of a dream that might have come true, but didn't?
Do you know?
Have you any idea?
Or, if you have not, do you think your fiancee has ?" "Why, yes," he made reply.

"Zelie has told me about it often.

It is of a fortune that was promised and never materialized.

Oh, such a long time ago, when he was quite a young man, the chevalier saved the life of a very great man, a Prussian nobleman of great wealth.

He was profuse in his thanks and his promises, that nobleman; swore that he would make him independent for life, and all that sort of thing." "And didn't ?" "No, he didn't.