The promenade was therefore continued; some of the company, with minds ill at ease on the subject, raised their eyes from time to time toward the sky; others, even more timid still, walked about without wandering too far from the carriages, where they relied upon taking shelter in case the storm burst.

The greater number of these, however, observing that the king fearlessly entered the wood with La Valliere, followed his majesty.

The king, noticing this, took La Valliere's hand, and led her away by a side-path, where no one this time ventured to follow him..