Just an answer is all I ask.

I will set a curb upon my impatience afterwards, and go through my period of ah--probation without murmuring.

Say that you, will marry me in six months' time--at Easter, say." She saw that an answer she must give, and so she gave him the answer that he craved.

And he--poor fool!--never caught the ring of her voice, as false as the ring of a base coin; never guessed that in promising she told herself it would be safe to break that promise six months hence, when the need of him and his loyalty would be passed.
A man approached them briskly from the chateau.

He brought news that a numerous company of monks was descending the valley of the Isere towards Condillac.