“I know the place, for I have gone in that direction on my promenades.”
“Then you know how deserted that neighborhood is. One often walks there a whole day without meeting a living soul.”
“Well? let us come to the point!”
“You will have a small boat in readiness; you say yourself that with money one can obtain whatever one wants.”
“You give me money enough and I will have a boat; that doesn’t embarrass me.”
“No one with you, you understand.”
“No one but the boat.”
“You will stay on the bank of the river, like a boatman taking a rest. You will see two women coming.”
“The ladies from the little house! Do you think that they’ll come?”
“I tell you that they will come, in the utmost distress, looking for a boat to take them to one of the little islands that lie just above the mill.”