Certainement il y avait ce jour-là quelque secret, quelque chose de particulier entre eux ; dans le temps, j’eus l’idée que lui aussi avait peur des gendarmes… » Clélia tressaillit. »
How he stared at the constables, and what curious looks his mother and his aunt kept giving him. Certainly there must have been some secret that day, some special knowledge which they were keeping to themselves; at the time, I had an idea that he too was afraid of the police...."