Then we bespeak five horses for the next day, find lodgings in the village that night, and make a fresh start back towards Paris in the evening of Sunday.

Is that right ?" "Yes.

One of you will have two horses on the lead, the other one.

Pack some fodder on the empty saddles and start at about ten o'clock.

Ride straight along the main road, as if you were making back for Paris, until you come to four cross-roads with a sign-post pointing to Courbevoie.