Every night I am awakened by the noise of a horse entering the court-yard." "So am I.Moreover, Madame seems to be troubled with the same sleeplessness.
"Madame ?" "Yes.

She is so troubled with sleeplessness that nothing will quiet her but the sight of the man who rides the horse: all of which is to say that a courier arrives each night with dispatches from Bleiberg.

Now, to tell the truth, the courier does not keep me awake half so much as the thought of who is eating three meals a day at the end of the east corridor on the third floor.

But there are Madame and the countess; we have kept them waiting." "Good morning," said Madame, smiling as they came up.

"And how have you slept ?" "Nothing wakes me but the roll of the drum or thunder," answered Fitzgerald diffidently.
"I dream of horses," said Maurice carelessly.
"Bon jour, M.le Capitaine!" cried the countess.