Apropos, has Jacintha put my bag into the carriage ?" On this a fierce foot-search, and the bag was found.

Meantime, Josephine leaned back in her seat with a sigh of thankfulness.

She was more intent on not being found out than on being married.

But Camille, who was more intent on being married than on not being found out, was asking himself, with fury, how on earth they should get rid of Aubertin in time.
Well, of course, under such circumstances as these the diligence did not come to its time, nor till long after; and all the while, they were waiting for it they were failing their rendezvous with the mayor, and making their rendezvous with the curate impossible.

But, above all, there was the risk of one or other of those friends coming up and blurting all out, taking for granted that the doctor must be in their confidence, or why bring him.
At last, at half-past eleven o'clock, to their great relief, up came the diligence.