'Heard what?'

'She is going to be married.'

'Minnie Bromar to be married? And to whom?'

Edmond at once understood that his news was regarded as being
important, and made the most of it.

'O dear, yes. It was settled last week when he was there.'

'But who is he?'

'Adrian Urmand, the linen-buyer from Basle.'

'Marie to be married to Adrian Urmand?'

Urmand's journeys to Granpere had been commenced before George Voss
had left the place, and therefore the two young men had known each
other.

'They say he's very rich,' said Edmond.

'I thought he cared for nobody but himself. And are you sure? Who
told you?'

'I am quite sure; but I do not know who told me. They are all
talking about it.'