Veronica is behind him.
XLVI.
THE LETTER.
"Let them take but one step within your door. They will soon have taken four."
LA FONTAINE (Fables).
She was red and out of breath, and her large breasts rose and fell like the bellows of a forge, while her air of triumph said clearly to Marcel: "Ah, ah, I have caught you here."
—Come, Monsieur le Curé, it is quite a quarter-of-an-hour that I have been looking for you. I ought to have thought before where to find you. Somebody is waiting for you.
—Who!
But the servant avoided making any reply, as she took the lead towards home. The Curé followed her hanging his head.
He reached the parsonage directly after her.