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Aymery was still in a deep sleep when Marpasse returned to the priest's house an hour before sunset, and found Grimbald baking cakes on the hearth. Marpasse might have laughed at his housewifeliness had she not been in a very earnest temper about Denise. So she drew a stool up and sat down as though to make sure that Grimbald did not burn the cakes which he had made while she was away.
"I have found her," she said, and Grimbald had only to listen, for Marpasse's generous impatience had ample inspiration.