“Oh! sire, it is grievous indeed.”
“You were there?”
“Not precisely, sire.”
“But you arrived on the scene of the accident, a few minutes after it took place?”
“Sire, about half an hour afterwards.”
“And where did the accident happen?”
“I believe, sire, the place is called the Rond-point du Bois-Rochin.”
“Oh!
the rendezvous of the hunt.”
“The very spot, sire.”
“Good; give me all the details you are acquainted with, respecting this unhappy affair, Monsieur de Manicamp.”