"You see for yourself," he said. "Doesn't it make a fine picture in the landscape?"
"Yes. How did it all go off?"
"Oh! all went smoothly enough. The sacristan raised a few difficulties just at first, but he ended by giving in to the reasons M. Hutin laid before him."
"What were those?"
"I don't quite know; I was looking at the landscape.... Your valley of Aisne is really magnificent, you know, especially over by Vauxbuin."
"So you heard nothing of what Hutin said to your sacristan?"
"I think he told him he would be killed if he did not keep quiet."
"Where is he now?"
"Who? M. Hutin?"