Now we are to do what I told you about.

We are to go off tonight under his charge, to your mother's, my dear old nurse, and there I am to live with you, and be as your cousin, till papa can get me out of the country." "And is the young officer to live there till the marquis comes ?" Margot asked, slyly.

"He might pass as another cousin, mademoiselle." "How foolish you are, Margot, and this is no time for folly.

But listen.

My father says, 'Rupert will be in the street round the corner, with three horses, at eleven o'clock.