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said Marie sharply . Then feeling ill-inclined to discuss the matter with her aunt , she left the room . Madame Voss , who had been assured by her husband that Marie had no real objection to Adrian Urmand , did not understand it all . ` I am sure Marie is unhappy , ' she said to her husband when he came in at noon that day . ` Yes , ' said he . ` It seems strange , but it is so , I fancy , with the best of our young women . Her feeling of modesty -- of bashfulness if you will -- is outraged by being told that she is to admit this man as her lover .