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Updated: May 26, 2025
The presents lie thick as autumn leaves. The bonne says you might fill a portmanteau with madame's fans. Bertram is recognised by a dozen ladies at once. The lady of the house receives me with the lowest curtsey. No ambassadress could be more gracieuse. The toilettes are amazing. It is early, after all Bertram's impatience. The state is that of a duchesse for the present.
When Gracieuse had given to Ramuntcho the holy water and they had made their signs of the cross, she led him through the sonorous nave, paved with funereal stones, to a strange image on the wall, in a shady corner, under the men's tribunes.
He feels himself much more engaged to Gracieuse, now, when somebody is in the secret, and somebody in the family who does not repulse him.
And, in the long, tepid twilights, pale iris or blue ashes in color, every night the bells of the month of Mary resound for a long time in the air, under the mass of the clouds hooked to the flanks of the mountains. During the month of May, with the little group of black nuns, with discreet babble, with puerile and lifeless laughter, Gracieuse, at all hours, went to church.
But there were also, in the course of the evening, waltzes and quadrilles, and even walks arm-in-arm during which the lovers could touch each other and talk. "Then, my Ramuntcho," said Gracieuse, "it is of that game that you expect to make your future, is it not?"
It was an increased joy for him to know that Gracieuse would accept his house, to be sure that she would bring the radiance of her presence into that old, beloved home, and that they would make their nest there for life Here come the long, pale twilights of June, somewhat veiled like those of May, less uncertain, however, and more tepid still.
He found time, however, to whisper to Mariette, as they were all about to mount the car: "Eh bien?" "Mais oui très gracieuse!" said the other, but without a smile, and with a shrug of the shoulders. He was only there to please Anderson. What did the aristocratic Englishwoman on tour with all her little Jingoisms and Imperialisms about her matter to him, or he to her?
For, when he reflects, what can have changed thus the soul of Gracieuse, formerly so uniquely devoted to him? Oh, terrible, foreign pressure, surely And then, when they come face to face again, who knows? When they talk, with his eyes in her eyes? But what can he expect that is reasonable and possible? In his native land has a nun ever broken her eternal vows to follow one to whom she was engaged?
Gracieuse had not been a scholar for two years, but was none the less the intimate friend of the sisters, her teachers, ever in their company for songs, novenas, or decorations of white flowers around the statues of the Holy Virgin.
They were inexplicable scruples, since he had ceased to be a believer. But all his will, all his audacity, all his life, were concentrated and directed, more and more, toward this unique end. And the prohibition, ordered by Itchoua, from seeing Gracieuse before the great attempt, exasperated his impatient dream.
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