The reunion of Candide and Cunégonde was not very surprising mainly because I was told it was going to happen. As I read the text where they saw each other, it said that they were speechless. Then on page 39 it said, "The old woman took some rose-water and sprinkled it over them," she had done that to 'recover' their senses. Since this novel is a satire, the sprinkled rose-water was a little bit of absurdity.
Just like Candide thought, it could have been a dream because he was going from a horrible nightmare by going to jail and losing a close friends to only greatness in his life by reuniting with the love of his life. Maybe it is too good to be true.
In this chapter you also get a little sneak peek of what Cunégonde had to go through after Candide left. Her entire family was killed and she was raped, which confuses Candide because he assumes that she would have been killed, but then she says, "' I was indeed,' said the lovely Cunégonde, 'but people don't always die of those mishaps.'"
The next chapter is when you realize what Cunégonde really had to go through.
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