"Mon Dieu! no! our nearest neighbors are a worthy bourgeois, who meddles with no one, and a lady who lives so retired, that although she has been here for three weeks, I have not seen her."
"That will do excellently."
"So much the better."
"And in a month from to-day—"
"That will be the 26th of October."
"Precisely. Well, on that day I hire your inn."—"The whole of it?"
"Yes, the whole. I wish to give a surprise to some countrymen, officers—or at least—soldiers: they will be told to come here."
"But if it be a surprise—"
"Oh! if you are curious, or indiscreet—"
"No, no, monsieur," cried she.