If he is not, he will some day be restored to me." "That is right, dear," he said.

"You have always been so hopeful and cheery, through all this business, that I am sure you will keep up your courage now.

We have every reason to hope and, for my part, I confidently expect to see Jean, safe and sound, when we arrive home.

Now let us set to; we both want something badly." Patsey did her best and, being indeed faint from hunger, having eaten nothing since the evening before, she felt all the better and stronger when she had finished her meal; and was able to chatter cheerfully to little Louis, who had ridden before Leigh all day, and who was now just beginning to talk.

Then they spread a blanket on the ground and, lying down together for warmth, covered themselves with the rest of their wraps; and Leigh was glad to find, by her steady breathing, that the fatigue of the last twenty-four hours had sufficed to send his sister to sleep, in spite of her grief at her separation from her husband.
The next day they crossed the road leading to Tours, between Chateaudun and Chartres.