"Marvelously."
"A long face?"
"Yes."
"And an old friend of the prior's?"
"Yes."
"Oh! I have a suspicion which I must have cleared up. Borroville, you must go to Soissons, to my brother—"
"But the priory?"
"Oh! you can invent some excuse to Gorenflot; he believes all you say," said Mayneville.
"You will tell my brother all you know about the mission of M. de Joyeuse."
"Yes, monseigneur."