I have told my father so, but he says that it is not to be expected that a young maid should love, until after marriage." "And you have promised ?" Philip asked.
"Yes, I have promised," she said simply.

"It is the duty of a daughter to obey her father, especially when that father is as good and kind as mine has always been to me.
"There, he is beckoning to me;" and, rising, she crossed the room.
Philip, a few minutes later, took his departure quietly.

Francois de Laville came in, an hour afterwards, to their lodgings.
"Well, Philip, I did not see you leave the count's.

Did you hear the news before you left?
The count announced it shortly after you had gone." "His daughter told me herself," Philip said.
"I am sorry, Philip.

I had thought, perhaps--but it is of no use talking of that, now." "Not the least in the world, Francois.