WHAT DOES THEREPAIRER MEAN?

As I became town with Hawberk I heard Constance murmur some thing to Louis which I didn't have an understanding of; but Louis whispered "My darling," in reply; and all over again, walking forward with Hawberk throughout the square I read a murmur of "sweetheart," and "my very own Constance," And that i understood some time had practically arrived A