Cathelineau felt himself to be in a new world, sitting down at table to eat with such companions as those around him.

The sweet, kind face of Agatha disturbed him most.
It almost unmanned him; he thought that it would be happiness enough for a life to be allowed to remain unseen where he might gaze on her.

He felt that such beauty, such ineffable loveliness as hers could almost make him forget his country and his countrymen; and then he shuddered and turned his eyes away from her.

But there she sat close to him: and she would speak to him, and ask him questions; she asked after his friends in St.Florent, after the women who were wounded, and she gave him money for the children who were made orphans; and then her hand touched his again, and he thought that he was asleep and dreaming.
Much of importance to their future plans was arranged that night, and such a council of war was probably never before assembled.

The old man joined in their contemplated designs with as much energy as the youngest among them; the words rash and imprudent never once crossed his lips; nothing seemed rash to him that was to be undertaken for the restoration of the King.