Roland remembered that the horse wounded in the attack at Les Carronnieres had been brought to this inn.

In all probability there was some connivance between the inn-keeper and the Companion of Jehu.

For the rest, in all probability the rider would stay there until the next evening.

Roland felt by his own fatigue that the man he was following must need rest.

And Roland, in order not to force his horse and the better to reconnoitre the tracks he was following, had taken six hours to do thirty miles.
Three o'olock was striking from the truncated bell-tower of Notre-Dame.
Roland debated what to do.