"You wish to marry her?"
"One moment, no! I will not lie: no, father, I do not wish to do it, but I am resigned."
"A warmer, more devoted feeling would be much better."
"What would you have, father? There are people who are born to marry, and others to remain single. Celibacy was my vocation, and nothing less than my present situation, I swear—"
"Very well, my son, the sooner the better, as you may repent of your virtuous intentions."
"What will be the earliest possible moment?" Aubry asked.
"Dame!" said the priest, "as it is a marriage in extremis, there will be no difficulty about the necessary dispensations, and I think that by day after to-morrow—"
"Day after to-morrow let it be," said the student with a sigh.
"But the young woman?"
"What of her?"