Certes, je me fusse bien gardé d’écrire si le renard n’était sur mes traces, et ne pouvait arriver à cet être céleste ; voir le buis dans quinze jours.
You may be sure that I should have taken care not to write if the fox were not on my track, and there were not a risk of his reaching that heavenly being; examine the box tree in a fortnight's time."