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`` Of course , '' she replied simply . `` He has had to trust me . '' `` Then you know that at sundown this afternoon I and the three others are to leave for Courbevoie on foot , where we are to obtain what horses we can whilst awaiting the chief . '' `` I did not know whither you and the other three gentlemen were going , milor , '' she replied ; `` but I did know that some of you were to make a start at four o'clock , whilst I was to wait here for your leader and prepare some supper against his coming . '' `` At what time did he tell you that he would come ? '' `` He did not say ; but he did tell me that when he returns he will have friends with him -- a lady and two little children . They will be hungry and cold .