The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans

Set in Brussels where Suzanne Beulemans the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester the son of a rival brewer The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman Albert learns Séraphins secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne but she is told by Isabelle her maid