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As she spoke a low whistle was heard without. "It is Alain's signal," cried Rose, all in a flutter. "He brings me news from Michael." So saying Mme. de Maufant moved with a quick step towards the door opening on the back yard, whence the signal-whistle evidently came. Marguerite site still on her tabouret, her head hidden in her shapely white hands.
All this time Alain and the ladies of Maufant had remained in earnest consultation. Rose was for letting matters take their course. She had scant sympathy with those whose policy had separated her from her husband, and who were, as she believed, plotting the betrayal of her country, Jersey, and her Michael. In these lay all her world.
Infelix, habitum temporis hujus habe?" "It is all one to me," said Alain, lightly; "whether here or at Maufant thou art always good." As they neared the door a voice came to them from the shadow of a projecting oriel: "Have a care, Jerseymen! You are betrayed." They ran to the shaded corner; but the moon was young and low and gave but little light in the narrow street.
Leaping to the shore, Alain Le Gallais, who was the sole passenger, climbing the western heights, made his way by paths with which he was well acquainted from his youth, to the manor-house of his exiled friend the Seigneur of Maufant. It was near midnight when he arrived. All was dark.
"My sister is not here," said Mme. de Maufant, answering but the second of Elliot's questions. "She has spoken with you for the last time, Mr. Elliot. I hope that I too have the same advantage. You should go home, Monsieur, to your wife." Elliot started, but quickly recovering himself, said, with an insolent smile, "Always thinking of marriage, these dear creatures.
Availing himself of projections in the wall with which he seemed well acquainted, he entered his own little room by the open casement, and throwing himself on the pallet soon slept the sleep of youth and healthy fatigue. At Maufant matters were not quite so peaceful.
Lempriere made haste to remove his wife and their sister from the noisy alarms of war to their quiet home at Maufant, where he left them to remove the traces of the usurper, and restore the old state of things with the help of the steward and such of the farmers as had not died out or left the country. One consequence of this removal was that Le Gallais saw nothing of the ladies.
And there were not wanting particular reasons to dispose Charles to favour and forgiveness in this instance. Though Elliot had concealed the fact at Maufant, he was in fact a married man. His wife was the daughter of the Mrs. Wyndham who had been the king's nurse.
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