'What was he like?
Was he a big, bloated man, Simon, with his head bandaged, or perhaps a wound on his face ?' 'The gentleman who went away with mademoiselle, do you mean ?' he asked.
'Yes, yes, gentleman if you like!' 'Not at all,' the student answered.

'He was a tall young gallant, very gaily dressed, dark-haired, and with a rich complexion, I heard him tell her that he came from a friend of hers too high to be named in public or in Blois.

He added that he brought a token from him; and when mademoiselle mentioned you--she had just entered madame's room with her woman when he appeared--' 'He had watched me out, of course.' 'Just so.

Well, when she mentioned you, he swore you were an adventurer, and a beggarly impostor, and what not, and bade her say whether she thought it likely that her friend would have entrusted such a mission to such a man.' 'And then she went with him ?' The student nodded.
'Readily?
Of her own free-will ?' 'Certainly,' he answered.

'It seemed so to me.