THE OLD MAN.
They think themselves in safety…. They have shut the doors; and the windows have iron bars…. They have mended the walls of the old house; they have put bolts upon the oaken doors…. They have foreseen all that could be foreseen….
THE STRANGER.
We must end by telling them…. Some one might come and let them know abruptly…. There was a crowd of peasants in the meadow where the dead girl was found…. If one of them knocked at the door…