He was in excellent spirits, and saluted Pierre with the laughing inquiry: "Well, bird of ill omen, what fresh plottings have you discovered ?" "You do not believe me, master, when I tell you," Pierre said gravely.
"Oh, then, there is something new ?" Philip said, seating himself on a couch.

"Let me hear all about it, Pierre, and I will try not to laugh." "Will you descend with me to the door, Monsieur Philip ?" "Assuredly I will, if it will please you; though what you are going to show me there, I cannot imagine." Pierre led the way downstairs and out through the door.
"Do you see that, sir ?" "Yes, I see that, Pierre." "What do you take it to be, sir ?" "Well, it is not too dark to see what it is, Pierre.

It is a small white cross that some urchin has chalked on the door." "Will you please to walk a little farther, sir?
There is a cross on this door.

There is none here, neither on the next.

Here you see another, and then a door without one.