human
She wears no mourning,
gpt
Her father forbade it, and he brought her back with her dowry at once to his own roof, away from the Trochus.
human
But why is such a beautiful woman not married again?
gpt
Do you not know that at the Court nobody except the bald and toothless marries, except for fortune. There are plenty of lovers, but no husbands. Because she is poor she is passed about in the family, sometimes as lady of honour to the Princess, sometimes to the Maréchale de Noailles, her grand-aunt.