Mademoiselle must please to wait a
little."
"Well, be as quick as you can, please. I want to go for a walk in the
park while there is no one about."
The little Breton laughed. "You won't run any danger of finding anyone
at this hour. What will the ladies take for breakfast?"
"Two cups of chocolate, please," said Genevieve, beginning to get up.
"Be so good as to make haste, Jeanette, get us our hot water and our
chocolate, like a good girl and say nothing to anyone."
Jeanette looked in the mirror, adjusted her cap, put back a stray lock
of hair, and opened the door. But she stopped, looking at the girls
craftily.
"Which way were you going, Mademoiselle?"
"That all depends. Which way is the prettiest?"
"When you leave the Chateau you must turn to your right and walk to
the first thicket. About ten minutes through the thicket and you will
come out on the big terrace. That is where they always take the guests
and say how beautiful it is!"
"Thank you," said Genevieve, "to the right, then the thicket and the
terrace. We aren't likely to meet anyone?"
"Nobody is abroad but the cats at this hour, and...."
Outside the door she made a face like a mischievous child who had just
played a trick. Running rapidly across the long corridors, she mounted
to the second storey, opened an ante-chamber which led to another room
and knocked lightly. The Duke opened the door.
"You here, Jeanette! What is it?"
"My godfather," she said very low, "the young ladies are getting up
now, and I think they are going to walk in the grove to the right of
the Chateau.
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