Will she be able to recognize him?
And he, will he see her?
Will any chance make him turn his head that way?
Bettina knows that he is Lieutenant in the second battery of his regiment; she knows that a battery is composed of six guns, and six ammunition wagons.

Of course it is the Abbe Constantin who has taught her that.

Thus she must allow the first battery to pass, that is to say, count six guns, six wagons, and then--he will be there.
There he is at last, wrapped in his great cloak, and it is he who sees, who recognizes her first.

A few moments before, he had recalled to his mind a long walk which he had taken with her one evening, when night was falling, on that terrace.

He raised his eyes, and the very spot where he remembered having seen her, was the spot where he found her again.