And should he be educated in Paris?
Would it not be too great a strain upon the little brain to have to learn French, Spanish, and German at the same time?
What anxieties, what responsibilities, but at the same time what bliss! She did not even let Wilhelm see the whole depth of her feelings, knowing that he would not follow her in these extravagant raptures.

She did not let him see her kneel two or three times a day at the altar or on her priedieu, and cover the silver Madonna del Pilar with ecstatic kisses.
He knew nothing of her having sent for the priest of the diocese and ordered a number of masses.

She did not take him with her when--her impatience leading her far ahead of events--she rushed from shop to shop looking for a cradle, and only put off buying one because she could find none in all Paris that was sumptuous and costly enough.
This went on for about a fortnight, till one day she tottered into Wilhelm's room, all dissolved in tears, sank sobbing at his feet, and hid her face on his knee.
"Pilar, what has happened ?" he cried in alarm.
"Oh, Wilhelm, Wilhelm," was all the answer he could get from her; and only after long and loving persuasion did she murmur in such low and broken tones that she had to repeat her words before he could understand her, "My happiness was premature, I was mistaken." She was inconsolable at the destruction of her airy castle, and was ill for days, the first time since Wilhelm had known her.

He sympathized deeply with her in her grief, but he did not conceal from himself that he was infinitely relieved at the turn affairs had taken.

With such a morbidly analytical and yet profoundly moral nature as his, no rapture of the senses could possibly last for six months and more.