I will make you a better--( here she substituted a full stop for a substantive)--than you expect.

You will see else." She lingered at the door: a proof that if Edouard, at that particular moment, had seized another kiss, there would have been no very violent opposition or offence.
But he was not so impudent as some.

He had been told to wait till the next meeting for that.

He prayed Heaven to bless her, and so the affianced lovers parted for the night.
It was about nine o'clock.

Edouard, instead of returning to his lodgings, started down towards the town, to conclude a bargain with the innkeeper for an English mare he was in treaty for.