We will do the best we can for you.

We are poor people, Messieurs; very poor." "I have already said that we will pay you handsomely my friend," quoth Des Cadoux, coming forward with his companion.

"Do your best for us and you shall not regret it.

Have you aught to eat in the house ?" The woman was standing by the wall, her face expressing bewilderment and suspicion.

Suspicious she was, yet that glance of La Boulaye's had ruled her strangely, and she was content to now await developments.
"We will see what we can do," answered La Boulaye, as he made room for them by the hearth.