“Look, Dagobert!” cried the two girls, smiling in their turn, and opening their blue eyes to the utmost extent.
“Well, well,” said the soldier, “they are yet far enough, from shutting; besides, it is only nine o’clock.”
“We also have something to tell, Dagobert,” resumed Rose, after exchanging glances with her sister.
“Indeed!”
“A secret to tell you.”
“A secret?”
“Yes, to be sure.”
“Ah, and a very great secret!” added Rose, quite seriously.
“A secret which concerns us both,” resumed Blanche.
“Faith! I should think so. What concerns the one always concerns the other. Are you not always, as the saying goes, ‘two faces under one hood?’”