There was some difficulty, which I afterwards learnt that my
sister-in-law had obviated, about my betrothal taking place from
home. My father, and Fritz especially, were for having me return to
the mill, and there be betrothed, and from thence be married. But
the Rupprechts and Monsieur de la Tourelle were equally urgent on
the other side; and Babette was unwilling to have the trouble of
the commotion at the mill; and also, I think, a little disliked the
idea of the contrast of my grander marriage with her own.
So my father and Fritz came over to the betrothal. They were to
stay at an inn in Carlsruhe for a fortnight, at the end of which
time the marriage was to take place. Monsieur de la Tourelle told
me he had business at home, which would oblige him to be absent
during the i
