"Then I establish myself to-morrow at the hovel, waiting for something better. I have a head also, and you know it."
"Yes, I know it. Oh, how I wish to see you far away from this! Why did you not stay in your woods?"
"I offer to rid you both of myself and the children."
"You would leave La Louve, then—she whom you love so well?"
"That's my business: I know what I have to do; I have a plan."
"If I let you take them away, will you never return to Paris?"
"In three days we will be off, and like the dead for you."
"I prefer to have it so, rather than you should always be here, and be suspicious of them. Come, since it must be so, take them away, and clear out as soon as possible, that I may never see you again."
"Is this settled?"
"It is. Give me the key of the cellar, so that I can release
Nicholas."