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I 'm sick of hearing of the girl at Saint Die . What the mischief is the girl at Saint Die to us ? We 've got to do our duty if we can , like honest men and women ; and not follow vagaries learned from Saint Die . ' The two men walked down the hill together , reaching the hotel about noon . Long before that time the innkeeper had fallen into a way of acknowledging that Adrian Urmand was an incubus ; but he had not as yet quite admitted that there was any way of getting rid of the incubus . The idea of having the marriage on the 1st of the present month was altogether abandoned , and Michel had already asked how they might manage among them to send Adrian Urmand back to Basle . ` He must come again , if he chooses , ' he had said ; ` but I suppose he had better go now .