"Yes, we have."
"How is that?"
"That's what made me say, 'Ah! at last!' As the wagon had not arrived, I took my spy-glass and have been watching the road from Parigné to the Tourgue, and now I am content; for the wagon and the escort are yonder descending the hill. You can see them."
Gauvain took the spy-glass and looked.
"Yes, there it is. It is hardly light enough to see it all distinctly, but I can distinguish the escort; it is certainly that. Only it seems to me larger than you said, Guéchamp?"
"Yes, it does."
"They are about a quarter of a league distant."
"The escape-ladder will be here in a quarter of an hour, commander."
"Then we can attack."
It was indeed a wagon approaching, but not the one they supposed it to be.