"You are my guests, and I shall not allow you to leave us in that manner.

Besides, you would probably find the gates closed down there, for I do not think they expected you so soon." During this interview, the servant who had received the travellers had returned with her milk-pail; behind her, the other farm-hands, men and women, arranged themselves silently round the table.
"Guitiote," said Reine, "lay two more places at the table.

The horse belonging to these gentlemen has been taken care of, has he not ?" "Yes, Mamselle, he is in the stable," replied one of the grooms.
"Good! Bernard, to-morrow you will take Fleuriot with you, and go in search of their carriage which has been swamped in the Planche-au-Vacher.

That is settled.

Now, Monsieur de Buxieres, will you proceed to table--and your coachman also?
Upon my word, I do not know whether our supper will be to your liking.