Le soir le comte annonça, comme par hasard, qu’il y avait un courrier qui, allant à Vienne passait par Milan ; trois jours après Fabrice recevait une lettre de sa mère.
That evening, the Conte announced, as though by chance, that one of his couriers, on his way to Vienna, would be passing through Milan; three days later Fabrizio received a letter from his mother.