She grew pensive and sank into a reverie.

Suddenly the door of the _salon_ opened, and Camille entered.

After inquiring after her health, he informed her that in consequence of a cold he, too, had been sick; and, as he was now free from business engagements, his physician was sending him to pass the winter in Sorrento.
She replied: "That is a journey that I would like to make.

Will you take me with you ?" She gazed fixedly at him; there was everything in her gaze.

He bent his knee before her, and for some moments they remained hand-in-hand, and eye to eye.