“but if we can not be married, we can . . . we can be engaged! Nobody will know but ourselves, Raoul. There have been plenty of secret marriages: why not a secret engagement? . . . We are engaged, dear, for a month! In a month, you will go away, and I can be happy at the thought of that month all my life long!” She was enchanted with her inspiration. Then she became serious again. “This,” she said, “is a happiness that will harm no one.”
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