"It would be more prudent."
"What are we to do, then?"
"Oh! it's a simple matter enough. I will send them to your friend. What is his name?"
"Captain Cauvignac."
"I will send them to your friend Captain Cauvignac, upon some pretext or other; it had better be somewhere outside of Orléans, to avoid a possible scandal."
"Yes, and so that the Orléanais may not be seized with the desire to scourge you with rods, as Camillus did the schoolmaster in ancient times."
"I will send them to him, then, outside the city."
"On the high-road from Orléans to Tours, for example."
"At the first public-house."
"Yes; they will find Captain Cauvignac at table. He will offer them a glass of wine and they will accept. He will propose the king's health, which they will drink with enthusiasm, and there they are soldiers! Now you may call them."