“I know it, I know it,” cried her mother. “Happy with a man of libertine practices! With one who so injured the peace of the dearest of our friends, and the best of men! No⁠—my Marianne has not a heart to be made happy with such a man! Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.”

Marianne sighed, and repeated, “I wish for no change.”