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They scarcely met at all during the next six months -- it had, / naturally, in this grateful reaction against their recklessness, / become a sacred period, even more charged with tremulous emotion / than the engagement periods of those who have not so nearly scorched / themselves. Even in her presence he found a certain pleasure in / combining distant adoration with the confident expectation of / proximity, and thus she was restored to the sanctity which she had / risked by her former easiness. And so all was for the best in the best / of all possible worlds.
When the six months had gone by, he came to claim her hand. She was / quite astonished. "You promised to marry me at the end of six months," / he reminded her.