"Them, of course! Them!"
Véronique lost her patience:
"But if everybody has gone!" she exclaimed.
Gertrude took fright:
"Speak low. Suppose they heard you!"
"But who?"
"They: the people of old."
"The people of old?"
"Yes, those who used to make sacrifices . . . the people who killed men and women . . . to please their gods."
"But that's a thing of the past! The Druids: is that what you mean? Come, come; there are no Druids nowadays."