Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Chapter 9

The next morning Albine was anxious to start at sunrise upon the grand

expedition which she had planned the night before. She tapped her feet

gleefully on the ground, and declared that they would not come back

before nightfall.

'Where are you going to take me?' asked Serge.

'You will see, you will see.'

But he caught her by the hands and looked her very earnestly in the

face. 'You must not be foolish, you know. I won't have you hunting for

that glade of yours, or for the tree, or for the grassy couch where one

droops and dies. You know that it is forbidden.'

She blushed slightly, protesting that she had no such idea in her head.

Then she added: 'But if we should come across them, just by chance, you

know, and without really seeking them, you wouldn't mind sitting down,

would y