The doctor prepared to take his place in the interior, when the conductor politely informed him that the vehicle stopped there a quarter of an hour.
"In that case I will not abandon my friends," said the doctor, affectionately.
One of his friends gnashed his teeth at this mark of affection.

But Josephine smiled sweetly.
At last he was gone; but it wanted ten minutes only to twelve.
Josephine inquired amiably, whether it would not be as well to postpone matters to another day--meaning forever.

"My ARDOR is chilled," said she, and showed symptoms of crying at what she had gone through.
Camille replied by half dragging them to the mayor.

That worthy received them with profound, though somewhat demure respect, and invited them to a table sumptuously served.

The ladies, out of politeness, were about to assent, but Camille begged permission to postpone that part until after the ceremony.
At last, to their astonishment, they were married.