Three in each party were to keep watch, by turns, while the rest slept.

An English officer was to remain in charge on one side of the street, and a French officer on the other.

The rest went back to the church, whose doors were now thrown open.
"I thank you most heartily, gentlemen," the French officer said, to Terence and to the other British officers, "for the immense service that you have rendered us.

Had it not been for your aid, our position would have been a very precarious one, before morning.

As it is, I think we need fear no further interruption.