anyone. I know not how long we
were there, talking, planning, and dreaming; but suddenly the curtains
lifted, and Catherine stood before us.

"Monsieur d'Orrain," she said, "I await my answer."

And then she burst out laughing.

There is but a word more to add, and my story ends. We were married
the following week, for that was the Queen's wish, and then my wife and
I said farewell to Paris and the Court for ever. As we rode one
evening on our way to Orrain, round the elbow of the pine-clad hill of
St. Hugo, and the towers of the Chateau came in sight, I told my wife
of my dream, and then we were aware of a figure galloping up the
leaf-strewn road towards us. It was Le Brusquet on his mule.

"_Eh bien_!" he said as he kissed my wife's hand. "And I am the first
to welcome you home, after all! Orrain, _mon ami_, I have seen your
pears. They are finer than mine--I swear it!"

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