They turned down and stood up in a doorway till the footsteps had passed, and then resumed their way.
"It is still too early for us to walk through the streets without exciting attention," Harry said.

"We had better make down to the river and wait there till the town is quite astir." In ten minutes they reached the river, and Harry found a seat for them at the foot of a pile of timber, where they were partially screened from observation.

Hitherto the girls had not spoken a word since they had issued from the house.

Virginie was dazed and frightened by the events of the night, and had hurried along almost mechanically holding Marie's hand.

Marie's brain was too full to talk; her thoughts were with her father and mother and with her absent lover.