This was the ambush.
"What are you doing here?" called out the vivandière.
The woman raised her head, and the former added angrily,—
"Are you insane to remain there!"
She went on,—
"A little more, and you would have been blown to atoms!" Then addressing the soldiers, she said, "It's a woman."
"Pardieu! That's plain to be seen," replied a grenadier.