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` But , ' I said , ` when you are married your husband will want you to go there . ' ` I shall do what my husband wants , ' she answered . ` If he asks me to do evil and I am weak enough to yield , he will be responsible before God -- and so I shall have strength to refuse him , for his own sake . ''' As the coach entered Nemours , at five in the morning , Ursula woke up , ashamed at her rumpled condition , and confused by the look of admiration which she encountered from Savinien . During the hour it had taken the diligence to come from Bouron to Nemours the young man had fallen in love with Ursula ; he had studied the pure candor of her soul , the beauty of that body , the whiteness of the skin , the delicacy of the features ; he recalled the charm of the voice which had uttered but one expressive sentence , in which the poor child said all , intending to say nothing . A presentiment suddenly seemed to take hold of him ; he saw in Ursula the woman the doctor had pictured to him , framed in gold by the magic words , `` Seven or eight hundred thousand francs . '' `` In three of four years she will be twenty , and I shall be twenty-seven , '' he thought .