Tout le monde le saura:

Rossignol du vert bocage

Faîtes-moi ce plaisir-là!”

and when she got to

“Rossignol prend sa volée,

Au château d’amour s’en va,”

she looked at Roland.

Afterwards they sang other songs.


Next day the conspirators met again in the arbour for a final council of war. They could not improve upon the map which the two young men had made—indeed, the question rather was whether they had not already improved it out of all resemblance to the original. Roland’s immediate movements were now under discussion. Though it must shorten his visit, they all, even Roland himself, felt that no time was to be lost. M. de Céligny was supposed, of course, to be on his way to Kerlidec and his grandfather.