Clement's plan was, to go down to the coast of Sussex, and get some of the fishing or smuggling boats to take him across to the French coast near Dieppe.

There again he would have to change his dress.

Oh, it was so well planned! His mother was startled by his disguise (of which we had not thought to forewarn her) as he entered her apartment.

And either that, or the being suddenly roused from the heavy slumber into which she was apt to fall when she was left alone, gave her manner an air of wildness that was almost like insanity.
"'Go, go!' she said to him, almost pushing him away as he knelt to kiss her hand.

'Virginie is beckoning to you, but you don't see what kind of a bed it is--' "'Clement, make haste!' said my lord, in a hurried manner, as if to interrupt madame.