" She left them together, and
went and tapped timidly at the doctor's study.
Aubertin received her with none of that reserve she had seen in him. He
appeared both surprised and pleased at her visit to his little sanctum.
He even showed an emotion Josephine was at a loss to account for. But
that wore off during the conversation, and, indeed, gave place to a sort
of coldness.
"Dear friend," said she, "I come to consult you about Rose and Edouard."
She then told him what had happened, and hinted at Edouard's one fault.
The doctor smiled. "It is curious. You have come to draw my attention to
a point on which it has been fixed for some days past. I am preparing a
cure for the two young fools; a severe remedy, but in their case a sure
one."
He then showed her a deed, wherein he had settled sixty thousand francs
on Rose and her children. "Edouard," said he, "has a good place. He is
active and rising, and with my sixty thousand francs, and a little purse
of ten thousand more for furniture and nonsense, they can marry next
week, if they like. Yes, marriage is a sovereign medicine for both of
these patients.
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