"It's done, it's done!" she said, "he has just left aunt, and vowed eternal gratitude to her.

He will now be obliged to show himself amiable." However Dario distrustfully inquired: "But was he made to sign anything, did he enter into a formal engagement ?" "Oh! no; how could one do that?
It's such a delicate matter," replied Benedetta.

"But people say that he is a very honest man." Nevertheless, in spite of these words, she herself became uneasy.

What if Monsignor Palma should remain incorruptible in spite of the great service which had been rendered him?
Thenceforth this idea haunted them, and their suspense began once more.
Dario, eager to divert his mind, was imprudent enough to get up before he was perfectly cured, and, his wound reopening, he was obliged to take to his bed again for a few days.

Every evening, as previously, Pierre strove to enliven him with an account of his strolls.