human
Are we safe? she asked in a whisper.
gpt
Is it that we can talk here.
human
We are perfectly safe, he answered.
gpt
Nothing can be heard from the Inn. No one is about.
human
You escaped without notice? Are you certain that no one follows you?
gpt
Absolutely. I am sure. And you?
human
I?--Oh, no, no--. There is no one to question me. I have been at the House on the Dunes all the evening. Marie, my maid,--she thinks that I am gone to the schooner. _Mon Dieu! cher ami_, what terrors I have suffered for you. It had not seemed possible that Claire de la Fontaine would ride and walk two so long miles in a desolate country to meet a lover--It must be that we are gone mad.
gpt
Madness then is the sweetest experience of life,
human
Ah _peut-etre, mon ami_. But now there are many affairs to discuss. Tell me--the Marquis, he was released, as your friend has promised me he should be?
gpt
Of course, didn't you know it?
human
I know nothing. Why then is it he has not left the Inn?
gpt
But he did leave--in the middle of the afternoon, half an hour after I returned.
human
And where is it that he has gone?
gpt
To the schooner, I suppose. He left alone, giving directions for his things to be sent after him.
human
Ah! to the schooner, you say? You are certain?