The probability that things would go as the man said was so evident that he had no answer.
"I think the way to get over that difficulty," Leigh said, when he saw that Jean was puzzled, "would be for you all quietly to buy other clothes or, better still, for them to be bought for you by your wives.

They should be such clothes as the peasants buy, when they come into the town.

It would then be supposed that the attack was made by a party of Breton peasantry.

As a good many other prisoners would escape, in addition to Monsieur Martin and your captain's wife, there would be no reason to suppose that the plot was specially arranged to aid their escape, or that any of the people of this town were concerned in the matter." "That is so, Master Leigh," Rouget said.

"It might be managed in that way.