Spectacles

The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "e;Froissart"e; to "e;Simpson"e; as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity "e;resolutely refused to employ them."e; His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles... (Excerpt from Wikipedia)