She gave a sigh and without mentioning Daguenet asked him some questions.
"When is the marriage ?" "We sign the contract on Tuesday, in five days' time," he replied.
Then still keeping her eyelids closed, as though she were speaking from the darkness and silence of her brain: "Well then, pet, see to what you've got to do.

As far as I'm concerned, I want everybody to be happy and comfortable." He took her hand and soothed her.

Yes, he would see about it; the important thing now was for her to rest.

And the revolt within him ceased, for this warm and slumberous sickroom, with its all-pervading scent of ether, had ended by lulling him into a mere longing for happiness and peace.

All his manhood, erewhile maddened by wrong, had departed out of him in the neighborhood of that warm bed and that suffering woman, whom he was nursing under the influence of her feverish heat and of remembered delights.