As for you, Suzanne, you had best go North as far as Oudenarde, so as to circumvent the Captain's brigands on that side.

Then make straight for Roubaix, and await me at the 'Hotel des Cloches.'" "But, Monsieur, I shudder at the very thought of re-entering France." "As Mademoiselle de Bellecour, a proscribed aristocrat, that is every reason for your fears.

But I have given the matter thought and I can promise you that as the Citoyenne La Boulaye, wife of the Citizen-deputy Caron La Boulaye, you will be as safe as I should be myself, if you are questioned, and, in response, you will find nothing but eagerness to serve you on every hand." She spoke now of the difficulties her mother would make, but he dismissed the matter by reminding her that her mother could not detain her by force.

Again she alluded to her dowry, but that also he dismissed, bidding her leave it behind.

Her family would need the money, to be realised by the jewels.