Yet there is some method in your madness, some truth in your ravings, for yonder light must indicate an inhabited dwelling.

This renders a change in the plans for our campaign advisable.

We will all go forward together towards the promised refuge, and leave the chariot where it is; no robbers will be abroad on such a night as this to interfere with its contents.

We will take our few valuables--they are not so numerous or weighty but that we can carry them with us; for once it is an advantage that our possessions are few.

To-morrow morning we will come back to fetch the chariot: now, forward, march!--and it is time, for I am nearly frozen to death." The comedians accordingly started across the fields, towards the friendly light that promised them so much--Isabelle supported by de Sigognac, Serafina by Leander, and the duenna dragged along by Scapin; while Blazius and the tyrant formed the advance guard.