It was one evening that I was in the garden, with his two younger sisters and himself, and all very innocently merry, when he found means to convey a note into my hand, by which he directed me to understand that he would to-morrow desire me publicly to go of an errand for him into the town, and that I should see him somewhere by the way.
Ce fut un soir que j'étais au jardin, avec ses deux jeunes soeurs et lui, qu'il trouva le moyen de me glisser un billet dans la main où il me disait que le lendemain il me demanderait en présence de tout le monde d'aller faire un message pour lui et que je le verrais quelque part sur mon chemin.