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Rh come back? Leonor certainly will. And shall I be able to stay?"

His perplexities began again. When Rose's hand touched his own, he felt himself her prisoner, her happy slave. As soon as the contact was removed, he was seized by ideas of ﬂight and liberty. He would like to have called Leonor, ﬂung Rose into his arms and made off across country.

"I have never been so much disturbed by any amour. It's the question of marriage. What complications! I hate this fellow Leonor. But for him... But for him? But is he the only man in the world? If I don't take her, it will be somebody else." Suddenly he drew closer to Rose and whispered frenziedly in her ear a stream of tender and violent words, "Rose, I love you, I desire you with all my being, I want you."

Rose started, but these words responded so exactly to her own thoughts that she was only surprised by their suddenness. First she blushed, then a smile of happy sweetness lit up her face and her eyes shone with life and desire.

They soon rejoined Lanfranc and M. Des