“Very easily, sir.”
“In that case all will be right. I will be here with a carriage at ten o’clock precisely. My coachman, whom I will instruct beforehand, instead of stopping at the great entrance, will pretend to go amiss, and stop just at the foot of the staircase. I will jump out; and you, you will swiftly jump into the carriage.”
“Yes, that also can be done.”
“As the curtains will be down, no one will see you. The carriage will drive out again, and wait for me outside; and ten minutes later I shall have joined you.”
The plan being adopted, as every thing depended upon punctuality, M. de Brevan regulated his watch by Henrietta’s; and then, rising, he said,—
“We have already conversed longer than we ought to have done in prudence. I shall not speak to you again to-night. Till Thursday.”
And with sinking voice, she said,—
“Till Thursday.”