"Are you alone, brother?" asked she.
"Yes, my sister."
"But Henri; where is Henri? Do you know that every one expects him here?"
"Henri has nothing to do here, and plenty to do in Flanders and Picardy. We have work to do there, and why should we leave it to come here, where our work is done?"
"But where it will be quickly undone, if you do not hasten."
"Bah!"
"Bah! if you like. I tell you the citizens will be put off no longer; they insist upon seeing their Duke Henri."
"They shall see him at the right time. And Salcede—?"
"Is dead."
"Without speaking?"