Now, I hope I shall meet you all, in three days' time, at your rendezvous.
"Pierre and Andre, you will, on the evening after you arrive, enter Nantes, following the river bank.

You will go along to a spot where a church faces the river.

Sit down on its steps and wait for us, until the clock strikes ten.

If we are not there, return and come back the next evening.

If we are still not there, you will know that some bad luck has befallen us; and the band will then disperse, and you will all find your way up home.
"I should advise you all to travel by night, when you have once crossed the Loire.