"I'm hungry and I'm thirsty," said Susette.
He kissed her pensively. They started home.
IV.
"Gaspard! Gaspard!"
The smith sat up swiftly on his couch.
"What's the matter?" he demanded.
All the same, in spite of certain disquieting dreams, it struck him as sweet and curious to be awakened like that by Susette. But he perceived that she was alarmed.
"Some one hammers at the door," she said.
Then he heard it himself, that thing he had already been hearing obscurely in his sleep.