CHAPTER XXII
"RECOMMENDED"
"A fig for reasons!" exclaimed Madame Bonnard. "We women can do without them. Monsieur Amory will bear me witness; I said that wretch Obernai was a villain."
"Pardon, mon amie," said her good man, mildly: "you said you did not like his voice."
"Well, was not that enough? I did not like his voice: therefore he was a villain. It is plain."
"The Kaiser is said to have a very pleasant voice," remarked Kenneth, slily.
He was sitting in the Bonnards' kitchen, awaiting the return of his comrades for supper.
"I should like to ask his wife what she thinks of it," said Madame Bonnard. "Poor woman! what a terrible thing it will be for her when she goes with him into banishment, and she has to listen to him all day long!"
"Think you they will banish him, monsieur?" asked Bonnard.
"Who can tell?" Kenneth replied. "We have got to catch him first."