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."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Does Sir Andrew have a wife?
2. Is Sir Andrew a married man?
3. 
Q2:
1. What is Marguerite's identity?
2. How can Marguerite be described?
3. 
Q3:
1. Was it very easy to hear through the walls?
2. Was there little insulation in the walls?
3. 
Q4:
1. Who spoke in a loud tone?
2. Who was basically shouting?
3. 
Q5:
1. Who wanted Marguerite to keep her voice down?
2. Who instructed Marguerite to hush?
3. 
Q6:
1. Why did Marguerite want to know if she and Andrew were alone?
2. What made Marguerite curious as to whether or not she and Andrew were alone?
3. 
Q7:
1. Who was feeling down?
2. Whose spirits were low?
3. 
Q8:
1. What was the boat called?
2. What name did the boat have?
3. 
Q9:
1. When is Marguerite's husband arriving?
2. When will the man Marguerite is married to get there?
3. 
Q10:
1. Have Chauvelin and company arrived yet?
2. 
3. 
