"Ay, to rejoin Urbaine. For that alone, upon one stipulation."
"What is the stipulation?"
"That--that--she and I meet again!"
"Meet again! Why not?"
Instead of replying to this question Baville asked Martin another.
"Was," he demanded, speaking swiftly, "Cavalier in Court to-day, dressed in a russet suit, disguised in a long black wig?"
"Yes," the other replied, "he was there."
"And the woman with him, old, gray-haired, is she one of the dwellers in the mountains, one of his band?"
"Nay. Her I have never seen."
"She can not then have met, have come into contact with Urbaine?"