CHAPTER XXIII HOPE

"Faith, Madame!" said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, "I think we'd better leave him alone. We shall not get anything more out of him, and we might arouse his suspicions. One never knows what spies may be lurking around these God-forsaken places."

"What care I?" she replied lightly, "now I know that my husband is safe, and that I shall see him almost directly!"

"Hush!" he said in genuine alarm, for she had talked quite loudly, in the fulness of her glee, "the very walls have ears in France, these days."

He rose quickly from the table, and walked round the bare, squalid room, listening attentively at the door, through which Brogard has just disappeared, and whence only muttered oaths and shuffling footsteps could be heard. He also ran up the rickety steps that led to the attic, to assure himself that there were no spies of Chauvelin's about the place.

"Are we alone, Monsieur, my lacquey?" said Marguerite, gaily, as the young man once more sat down beside her. "May we talk?"

"As cautiously as possible!" he entreated.

"Faith, man! but you wear a glum face! As for me, I could dance with joy! Surely there is no longer any cause for fear. Our boat is on the beach, the FOAM CREST not two miles out at sea, and my husband will be here, under this very roof, within the next half hour perhaps. Sure! there is naught to hinder us. Chauvelin and his gang have not yet arrived."

1. Is Sir Andrew married?
2. who is Magurerite?
3. Were the walls paperthin?
4. Who was speaking loudly?
5. Who wanted her to be more quieter?
6. Why did Magureite wanted to know if they were alone?
7. Who was sad?
8. what was the boat's name?
9. when is her husband arriving
10. Did chavelin and his gang come yet?
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. the walls have ears
4. Marguerite did
5. Sir Andrew
6. she wanted to talk
7. unknown
8. FOAM CREST
9. within the next half hour perhaps
10. no