Leon at once envied the calm of the tomb, and one evening he had even made his will, asking to be buried in that beautiful rug with velvet stripes he had received from her. For this was how they would have wished to be, each setting up an ideal to which they were now adapting their past life.
Léon tout de suite envia le calme du tombeau, et même, un soir, il avait écrit son testament en recommandant qu’on l’ensevelît dans ce beau couvre- pied, à bandes de velours, qu’il tenait d’elle; car c’est ainsi qu’ils auraient voulu avoir été, l’un et l’autre se faisant un idéal sur lequel ils ajustaient à présent leur vie passée.