'Lord, what is man ?' cried the Psalmist in dejection.

'Lord, what is man not ?' cry we, who know more of him.
His traverse took him four days and nights.

He rested at La Ferte, at Nogent-le-Rotrou, outside Dreux, and at Rosny.

Here he stayed a day, the Vigil of the Feast of Palms.

He had it in his mind not to see Jehane again until the very moment when he might lose her..