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`` How strange ! '' The Princess listened with interest , wondering what was coming next . `` I never saw her but once , '' Malipieri continued . `` We met in the morning , we were married at noon , at the municipality , we parted at the railway station twenty minutes later , and have never met again . '' `` But you are not married at all ! '' cried the Princess . `` The Church would annul such a marriage without making the least trouble . ''