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they joked together about the unsuccessful
proposal.
One of Aniuta’s friends about this time
committed the mean action of marrying for love;
how they despised and pitied her! Sonia
particularly felt her heart swell with indignation
that anybody could thus forsake all ideals. And
the young wife herself felt thoroughly ashamed
in presence of her friends, as if she had fallen
deeply. She never dared speak to them about
her matrimonial happiness, and she forbade her
husband ever to caress her in their presence.
Then, all of a sudden, something quite
unexpected happened to Sonia.
Aniuta and Inez, far from being discouraged
by their first failure, abode by their plan and
chose another young man for their deliverer.
He was only an undergraduate, but exceedingly
clever, and wished to go to Germany himself in
pursuit of his studies. He was of good family,
and generally considered very promising; so it
seemed probable that the respective parents,
whether Aniuta’s or Inez’s, would have no
serious objection to the union. This time the
proposal was made in a less solemn way; Aniuta,
profiting by an opportunity, when she met him
in the house of mutual friends, put the question
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