Why do you doubt ?" Monsieur Stangerson made a visible effort to recover himself.
"Yes, Monsieur," he said at length, "you are right.

It will be best that you should know something which, if I concealed it, might appear to be of importance; Monsieur Darzac agrees with me in this." Monsieur Darzac, whose pallor at that moment seemed to me to be altogether abnormal, made a sign of assent.

I gathered he was unable to speak.
"I want you to know then," continued Monsieur Stangerson, "that my daughter has sworn never to leave me, and adheres firmly to her oath, in spite of all my prayers and all that I have argued to induce her to marry.

We have known Monsieur Robert Darzac many years.

He loves my child; and I believed that she loved him; because she only recently consented to this marriage which I desire with all my heart.