These few, brief moments contained a whole confession of love; avowals mingled with repentance, promises of pardon, tender reconciliation! "Thanks!" he sighed at last, "will you give me your hand ?" She gave it, and while he held it in his own, Reine turned toward the driver on the seat.
"Felix," said she, warningly, "drive slowly and avoid the ruts.
Good-night, Monsieur de Buxieres, send for the doctor as soon as you get in, and all will be well.

I will send to inquire how you are getting along." She turned and went pensively down the road to La Thuiliere, while the carriage followed slowly the direction to Vivey.
The doctor, being sent for immediately on Julien's arrival, pronounced it a simple sprain, and declared that the preliminary treatment had been very skilfully applied, that the patient had now only to keep perfectly still.

Two days later came La Guite from Reine, to inquire after M.
de Buxieres's health.

She brought a large bunch of lilies which Mademoiselle Vincart had sent to the patient, to console him for not being able to go in the woods, which Julien kept for several days close by his side.
This accident, happening at Maigrefontaine, and providentially attended to by Reine Vincart, the return to the chateau in the vehicle belonging to La Thuiliere, the sending of the lilies, were all a source of great mystification to Manette.

She suspected some amorous mystery in all these events, commented somewhat uncharitably on every minor detail, and took care to carry her comments all over the village.