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"But why," Madame St. Lo asked, sticking her arms akimbo, "why stay in this forsaken place a day and a night, when six hours in the saddle would set us in Angers?"
"Because," Tavannes replied coldly -- he and his cousin were walking before the gateway of the inn -- "the Countess is not well, and will be the better, I think, for staying a day."