Knowing me to be under a promise that naught can prevail upon me to break, she would have me believe that nature has dissolved the obligation for me.

She thinks that were I persuaded of Florimond's death, I might turn an ear to the wooing of Marius.

But she is mistaken, utterly mistaken; and so I sought to convince her.

My father willed that I should wed Florimond.

Florimond's father had been his dearest friend.