Ouvrant la fenetre aussi doucement que possible, ils attendirent le passage d’un nuage épais qui vint obscurcir la nuit, puis l’un derriere l’autre ils se mirent a traverser le jardin ; rampant, trébuchant, retenant avec soin leur respiration, ils parvinrent a gagner l’abri de la haie, qu’ils voulaient longer jusqu’a la breche donnant dans les champs.
Opening the window very slowly and carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured the night, and then one by one passed through into the little garden. With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfields.