Thus Garnache was encouraged to continue.
"And what is all this trouble about, which they have sent me to set right?
About a marriage.

There is a girl wants to marry one man, and a woman who wants to marry her to another.

Ponder the possibilities of tragedy in such a situation.

Half this world's upheavals have had their source in less.

Yet you, Rabecque, would have married!" Necessity at last turned his discourse to other matters.
"Tell me, now," said he abruptly, in a different tone, "is there hereabouts a ford ?" "There is a bridge up yonder, monsieur," returned the servant, thankful to have the conversation changed.
They rode towards it in silence, Garnache's eyes set now upon the grey pile that crowned the hillock, a half-mile away, on the opposite bank of the stream.