
She has informed her husband that she intends to go to the city in the morning and stay with her aunt while on leave. Later that night, she sits alone on a bench, feeling befuddled and wanting to get away from the plantation for a time. Gaston finds it amusing that she replies by saying she would like him to be more interesting. Baroda expresses surprise at Gaston's arrival, by saying that she expected him to be more fascinating. Her husband informs her that he will be staying for another week and inquires as to why she does not want him to remain longer with her. Baroda found various deficiencies within him. Gouvernail behaved quite simply and didn't pay much attention to Mrs. She first leaves him alone with her husband, but she soon starts to join him on walks as she tries to overcome his solitary habits. Unlike what she had thought of him, she finds him way better than she expected. Baroda finds Gouvernail to be a little confusing, yet she finds him to be charming and unoffensive. He does not seem to be very bright, but he does appear calm and polite. He loves sitting on the field and listening to Gaston explaining sugar plantation methods. Baroda wonders why she loves Gouvernail since he makes no special effort to impress her in any other way, She does not recognize any of the good characteristics mentioned by Gaston as being there. When she meets Gouvernail, who is slim but neither tall nor cynical, she discovers that she really likes him. She has a mental image of him as a tall, slender, and cynical guy, and she does not care for this mental image.Ī paradoxical thing happens after that. She has never met Gouvernail, despite the fact that she is aware that Gouvnernail and her husband were friends in college and that he is now a successful journalist. After all, they had been busy all winter, and she had hoped to use the time to relax and talk with her husband Gaston Baroda, and have some good time with him. Baroda learns that her husband's friend Gouvernail is going to spend a week or two at their plantation, she becomes a little upset.
