And if ever you become a widow, I enter the lists

She read the sincerity of his intention in his voice, and gave him her hands. He kissed them both, one after the other, and then said simply, as he raised his head: Ah, if I had found a woman like you, how gladly I would have married She was touched this timesoothed by this phrase, as women are by the compliments which reach their hearts, and she gave him one of those rapid and grateful looks which make us their slaves.