Mme de Peyrac, Comment on parle à Paris (1857)
“ If your affections are not engaged, Marie offers you her heart and hand. Come, my darling, do tell him yourself; he is so distressingly skeptical. GEORGE. (He looks at MARIE with hesitation, and mingled hope and fear.) Marie, is it a dream ? Answer me, pray. Does not your mother deceive me? Can so much happiness be in store for me? MARIE (looks up and smiles through her tears) . Yes, George, it is all true; you have ever been my only love. For an instant, pride struggled to win my heart; but it was yours; no earthly power could steal it from you. CHARLES (entering the room) . ”
