The one with the gun is making signs that he is going to fire." Shortly afterwards she fell into the heavy slumber that usually terminated these attacks.

On the next day, she seemed to have forgotten everything.

She never again spoke to Silvere of the morning on which she had found him with a sweetheart behind the wall.
The young people did not see each other for a couple of days.

When Miette ventured to return to the well, they resolved not to recommence the pranks which had upset aunt Dide.

However, the meeting which had been so strangely interrupted had filled them with a keen desire to meet again in some happy solitude.