Let us do nothing to worry her for the short time she has to live.

Let us take a course between pain to her and cruelty to you and Camille." These arguments went far to convince Josephine: for her own heart supported them.

She went from her solid objections to untenable ones--a great point gained.

She urged the difficulty, the impossibility of a secret marriage.
Camille burst in here: he undertook at once to overcome these imaginary difficulties.

"They could be married at a distance." "You will find no priest who will consent to do such a wicked thing as marry us without my mother's knowledge," objected Josephine.
"Oh! as to that," said Rose, "you know the mayor marries people nowadays." "I will not be married again without a priest," said Josephine, sharply.
"Nor I," said Camille.