You were the queen of us all," Edith said.
"But they could never know, I listened to you." Charlene added.
The two blossoming girls giggled heartily, their hands clasped together.
The serious atmosphere just now had vanished without a trace.
Asking herself, Edith didn''t quite like the remnants of Raphael Saint-Clemont''s old-fashioned aristocratic mannerisms. However, as she had mentioned before, she didn''t harbour any stereotyped hostility against the aristocratic class.
Thus, she felt no burden in socializing with her two friends or imagining marrying into their family. Despite being aristocrats, they were good people first and foremost, and her old friends.
Edith thought to herself that she didn''t dislike Charlene''s brother either. Perhaps, when the revolutionary situation became less tense, she would pity him and give him happiness.
With this resolve, the young girl planned to bring up the possibility of this engagement with her family that very night.
However, upon returning home and seeing the figure from her dreams, all these thoughts were pushed out of her mind.
"Come sit down, Edith. Brother is honored to have invited Citizen Quenet to dinner tonight," Margot called out to her younger sister.
"Let me formally introduce: the outstanding patriot Citizen Andre Quenet, a member of our section''s military committee and the star of the Jacobin Club," Philippe said with fervent enthusiasm, gazing at the handsome and talented peer beside him.
The maiden languished at the blonde youth with her staring eyes. Completely unguarded, she encountered this familiar face up close once again for the first time.
It couldn''t be said that this was a figure she had been pining for day and night – too much passion had occupied her mind over the years, indeed she scarcely recalled his exact features and build.
The former mentor of hers had become more of a symbol, a phantom of thought, occasionally surfacing abruptly in dreams, leaving her wistful upon waking.
At the very first sight of her, a touch of stunned look flashed through Andre''s eyes.
"Do you remember me, Citizeness Travis?" he spoke with a meaningful inflection, "We were quite acquainted w