Spell and Potion

And there was the less scruple on Eutacie's account, because the
Chevalier, knowing that the Duchess had a son and two grandsons,
had conceived a great terror that she meant to give his niece to
one of them; and this would be infinitely worse, both for the
interests of the family and of their party, than even her reunion
with the young Baron.  Even Narcisse, who on his return had written
to Paris a grudging consent to the experiment of his father and
sister, had allowed that the preservation of Berenger's life was
needful till Eutacie should be in their power so as to prevent such
a marriage as that! 

To Diane, the very suggestion became
certainty: she already saw Eutacie's shallow little heart consoled
and her vanity excited by these magnificent prospects, and she
looked forward to the triumph of her own constancy, when Berenger
should find the image so long enshrined in his heart crumble in its
sacred niche.

Yet a little while then would she be patient, even though nearly a
year had passed and still she saw no effect upon her prisoners,
unless, indeed, Philip had drunk of one of her potions by mistake
and his clumsy admiration was the consequence.  The two youths went
on exactly in the same manner, without a complaint, without a
request, occupying themselves as best they might--Berenger
courteously attentive recovered his health, and the athletic powers
displayed by the two brothers when wrestling, fencing, or snow-
balling in the courtyard, were the amazement and envy of their
guard. Twice in the course of the winter there had been an alarm of
wolves, and in their eagerness and excitement about this new sport,
they had accepted the Chevalier's offer of taking their parole for
the hunt.