Peyrolles went on: "Then, as you value his friendship, secure the person of that girl whom Monsieur de Chavernay spoke to just now."
"Why?" Navailles questioned.
Peyrolles answered him, sharply: "Don’t ask; act. To please our master it should be done at once."
"How is it to be done?" asked Taranne.
Peyrolles looked about him. "Is there no other woman here who wears a rose-colored domino?"
Navailles pointed to a group in an adjacent arbor. "Cidalise, yonder, is wearing a rose-colored domino. She will do anything for me."
"Bring her," Peyrolles said, in a tone of command which he sometimes assumed when he was on his master’s business, and which no one of his master’s friends ever took it upon himself to resent. Navailles went towards the arbor and came back with Cidalise upon his arm. Cidalise was a pretty, young actress, wearing just such a pink domino as that worn by Gabrielle.
Navailles formally presented her to Peyrolles. "Monsieur Peyrolles, this is the divine Cidalise. What do you want of her?"
Peyrolles unceremoniously took the actress by the wrist, and pointed to where Gabrielle and her escort were wandering.
"You see that girl in rose-color, escorted by two giants? Your friends will gather about them and begin to hustle the giants. In the confusion you will slip between the pair, who will then be left to march off, believing that you are their charge, who will, however, be in the care of these gentlemen. Do you understand?"