Men were seen running across the fields, but these they easily avoided.
"Now turn again, and make straight for La Chatre," Philip said.

"We can cross the bridge, and ride through the place without danger.
Those who would have interfered with us are all behind us." As he had expected, the place was perfectly quiet.

The better class of the bourgeois were all asleep, either ignorant or disapproving of the action of the mob.

As soon as they were through the town, Philip checked the speed of his horse.
"Mademoiselle," he said, "I am as yet in ignorance of your name.

I am the Chevalier Philip Fletcher, an English gentleman fighting for the cause of the reformed religion, under Admiral Coligny.