Déruchette turned round: “—I would marry him,” she said. There was a silence. A man came forward, his face ashy pale, and said: “You would marry him, Miss Déruchette?” It was Gilliatt.
Don Quixote and Dulcinea. The parallel is even clearer later, when Gilliatt plays Deruchette the bagpipes at night, and fights the terrible monster on her family's behalf.
