“What is it?” asked D’O, “for I do not.”

“Ah! look round you.”

“Well!”

“Did any one laugh at us here?”

“Yes, Bussy.”

“Well, that is the wild boar the king wants.”

“You think the king——”

“He asks for it.”

“Well, then, so be it. But how do we hunt?”

“In ambush; it is the surest.”