"Master Hugonnet's baths are on this street, not far away; let us go there, seigneur."
"In that case, I must go out with this sauce all over me! That annoys me!"
"We will walk close beside you, seigneur, one on the right, the other on the left; and with your cloak, in addition, no one will see anything!"
"Very well, so be it!—Let us start at once for the baths; I am in haste to be cleansed!"
Passedix paid the bill and left the wine shop, flanked by his page and his esquire.
LI
A BATH
The chevalier and his bodyguard arrived at Master Hugonnet's.
"A bath for me instantly," said Passedix; "and while I am in the water, my page here will take my garments to the cleanser's."
Master Hugonnet escorted the Gascon to the hot baths.
"I do not see your daughter Ambroisine, La Belle Baigneuse," Passedix said to him on the way.