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They would go the next day to see the journalist 's parents , and remain with them some days . Duroy had striven to get her to renounce this project , but not having been able to do so , had ended by giving in to it . So the tenth of May having come , the newly-married couple , having considered the religious ceremony useless since they had not invited anyone , returned to finish packing their boxes after a brief visit to the Town Hall . They took , at the Saint Lazare terminus , the six o'clock train , which bore them away towards Normandy . They had scarcely exchanged twenty words up to the time that they found themselves alone in the railway carriage . As soon as they felt themselves under way , they looked at one another and began to laugh , to hide a certain feeling of awkwardness which they did not want to manifest . The train slowly passed through the long station of Batignolles , and then crossed the mangy-looking plain extending from the fortifications to the Seine .