I hope that we shall be able to obtain news of her husband at Blaye; for he may, if my information is correct, have sailed up the Dordogne, and we may catch him as he comes down again.

If my information is not correct, we shall return here.

I will therefore, if you will allow me, pay you our reckoning at once, and also the rent of the rooms for another week; so that if we return, we may find them unoccupied." "But you are not going to start this evening, surely, monsieur ?" "Yes; I have arranged for a passage on a boat that is on the point of starting, and have not a moment to lose." He ran upstairs to Patsey.
"They have gone on to the carriage," he said.

"Put on Louis's things and your own.

I will tell you all about it, as we go." He then went down again and settled up with his landlady, who was profuse in her exclamations of regret at their departure.