Already a sheet had started, and several napkins had gone to fasten themselves to the branches of a willow.

She fortunately caught them, but then the handkerchiefs began to fly.

There was no one to help her; she was so frightened that she lost all her presence of mind.

When she tried to spread out the sheet again, she had a regular battle, for she was quite lost in it, as it covered her with a great crackling sound.
Through all the noise of the wind she heard a voice saying, "Mademoiselle, do you wish me to help you ?" It was he, and immediately she cried to him, with no other thought than her pre-occupation as a good housewife: "Of course I wish it.

Come and help me, then.