I tell you that if your father orders a wedding gown, you are the only person in the house who can wear it, and he would not order it just to see how beautiful you would be as a bride! He is a serious man, the master, he is grave, he is wise! He does nothing without much reflection, and what he does is well done.

He says, 'My daughter is to be married, therefore I will order a splendid dress for her.' That is what he says, and he orders it." "That has an air of reason," said Marietta gravely.

"I did not mean to laugh at you." "Oh, very well! If you thought your father unreasonable, what should I say?
He does not say one thing and do another, your father.

And I will tell you something.

They will make the gown even handsomer than he ordered it, because he is very rich, and he will grumble and scold, but in the end he will pay, for the honour of the house.