Excerpt: ...they were fortunately empty. Did Monsieur desire two rooms or one? "Two," said Philidor promptly. "We will pay of course." He hesitated and MAre GuAgou examined them with new interest, but Yvonne, with great presence of mind, flew to the rescue. "We-we are not married yet, Madam," she said flushing adorably. "One day-perhaps-" "Soon-Madame," put in Philidor, rising to the situation with alacrity. "We shall be married soon." Madame GuAgou beamed with delight. "Tiens! C'est joli, Aa! GuAgou!" she called. "We must ...
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Excerpt: ...they were fortunately empty. Did Monsieur desire two rooms or one? "Two," said Philidor promptly. "We will pay of course." He hesitated and MAre GuAgou examined them with new interest, but Yvonne, with great presence of mind, flew to the rescue. "We-we are not married yet, Madam," she said flushing adorably. "One day-perhaps-" "Soon-Madame," put in Philidor, rising to the situation with alacrity. "We shall be married soon." Madame GuAgou beamed with delight. "Tiens! C'est joli, Aa! GuAgou!" she called. "We must kill a chicken and cut some haricots and a lettuce. They shall dine well in VallAcy-these two." GuAgou grinned toothlessly from the doorway of the shed where he was stabling Clarissa, and then hobbled his way up to the garden. When MAre GuAgou went into the kitchen to prepare the dinner, Yvonne and Philidor walked through the garden to a small rustic arbor at the end which looked down over a meadow and a stream. "I hope the bon Dieu will forgive me that fib," she laughed. "It was no fib at all." And as her eyes widened, "You merely said that we hadn't been married yet. We haven't you know," he laughed. Her look passed his face and sought the saffron heavens across which the swallows were wheeling high above the tree tops. "Obviously," she said coolly. "Nowadays one only marries when every other possibility of existence is exhausted." He examined her gravely. "The bon Dieu will not forgive you that," he said slowly. "Why not?" "Because you don't mean what you say. Whatever Hermia was-Yvonne at least is honest. She knows as I do that she will not marry for the reasons you mention." She accepted his reproof smilingly and thrust out her hand-a browner hand now, a ringless, earnest little hand-and put it into his. "You are right, Philidor, I shall marry-if I may-for love. Or-I shall not marry at all." He turned his palm upward, but before he could seize her fingers she had eluded him. "But I'm not ready yet, ...
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