Whereupon Detricand led him into the garden, saw him safe out on the road and watched him disappear.

Then rubbing his fingers, as though to rid them of pollution, with an exclamation of disgust he went back to the house.
By another evening--that is, at the hour when Guida arrived home after her secret marriage with Philip d'Avranche--he saw the lights of the army of de la Rochejaquelein in the valley of the Vendee..