Two pins in a fountain

There is a charming superstition in the little wine-growing town of St. Emilion-- if an unmarried girl drops two pins into the fountain and the pins form a cross, she will be married within the year. But it seemed the magic of the patron saint was not going to work for Paula. She had fallen in love with her employer, Gratien de Tourcy, and the love was plainly one-sided!