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Macumer has just wakened me, darling, with your husband's letter. First and foremost -- Yes. We shall be going to Chantepleurs about the end of April. To me it will be a piling up of pleasure to travel, to see you, and to be the godmother of your first child. I must, please, have Macumer for godfather. To take part in a ceremony of the Church with another as my partner would be hateful to me. Ah! if you could see the look he gave me as I said this, you would know what store this sweetest of lovers sets on his wife!
"I am the more bent on our visiting La Crampade together, Felipe," I went on, "because I might have a child there. I too, you know, would be a mother! . And yet, can you fancy me torn in two between you and the infant? To begin with, if I saw any creature -- were it even my own son -- taking my place in your heart, I couldn't answer for the consequences. Medea may have been right after all. The Greeks had some good notions!"