The magic word was Fontenoy.

If Gideon Rand or Adam Gaudylock chanced to pronounce it, it was as though the Captain of the Thieves had said, "Open Sesame!" The cave door opened, and he saw strange riches.
That day at Fontenoy! He tried to recall it, but it did not stand out in his memory; it was curiously without edge.

Trying to remember was like remembering a dream, delicious and evasive.

The child named Jacqueline had changed to a girl named Jacqueline.

She had spoken to him shyly, and he had answered with much greater shyness, with a reddening cheek and a stumbling tongue.