With difficulty I persuaded him to wait until we had, once more, seen our friend, until the weather was really fine . . . and the plum trees in bloom at Sainte-Agathe.
À grand’peine je lui persuadai d’attendre que nous eussions revu notre ami, que le temps fût sérieusement au beau… que tous les pruniers de Sainte-Agathe fussent en fleur.