The weather is bitterly cold, and it is out of the question that you should stop out all night, and yet we could not ask for a lodging close to Paris.
"Oh, I see now! The best plan will be for you all to sleep to-night at Jacques'.

The good people will manage somehow; then we can start early in the morning.

Yes, and in that way it will not be necessary for Marie to go out and leave Victor." "That will certainly be the best way," Louise said.

"I have been wondering ever since you said we must start this evening, what would become of us to-night.

When we once get fairly away from Paris it will be easier, for the country people are kind-hearted, and I think we shall always be able to get shelter for the night; but just outside Paris it would be different.