Father Drouillard had returned to Quebec.
Another shade of color was added to the leaves and then Robert saw a great movement in Wolfe's camp before the Montmorency.

The whole army seemed to be leaving the position and to be going on board the fleet.

At first he thought the siege was to be abandoned utterly and his heart sank.

But Charteris, whom he saw just before he went on his ship with the Royal Americans, reassured him.
"I think," he said, "that the die is cast at last.

The general has some great plan in his head, I know not what, but I feel in every bone that we're about to attack Quebec." Robert now felt that way, too.