Prompt and cool as he was himself, she was ready on the instant to obey his orders, and felt a certain sensation of pride at the manner in which her previous confidence in him was being justified.
After placing the girls in their shelter Harry had left them and stood leaning against the parapet of the quay as if carelessly watching the water, but maintaining a vigilant look-out against the approach of danger.

The number of passers-by increased rapidly.
The washerwomen came down to the boats moored in the stream and began their operation of banging the linen with wooden beaters.
Market-women came along with baskets, the hum and stir of life everywhere commenced, and Paris was fairly awake.
Seeing that it was safe now to proceed, Harry returned to his companions.

He had scarcely glanced at them before, and now looked approvingly at their disguises, to which the marquise had, during the long hours of the night, devoted the most zealous attention.
Marie had been made to look much older than she was.

A few dark lines carefully traced on her forehead, at the corners of her eyes and mouth, had added many years to her appearance, and she could have passed, except to the closest observer, as the mother of Virginie, whose dress was calculated to make her look even younger than she was.

The hands and faces of all three had been slightly tinged with brown to give them a sun-burnt aspect in accordance with their peasant dresses, and so complete was the transformation that Harry could scarcely suppress a start of surprise as he looked at the group.
"It would be safe now, mademoiselle," he said to Marie, "for us to proceed.