"After you, if you please," and he signed to him to return.
He was a burly man, grim and truculent in appearance, and his follower was like him.

Tignonville hesitated, then turned and ascended.

But as soon as he had reached the landing where they could pass him, he turned again.
"I have made a mistake, I think," he said.

"I have entered the wrong house." "Are you for the house next the Golden Maid, Monsieur ?" "Yes." "Rue Cinq Diamants, Quarter of the Boucherie ?" "Yes." "No mistake, then," the stout man replied firmly.

"You are early, that is all.