permitted it. Miss de Contrecoeur and Lana heard that a number of women were already here, and so come for a frolic they must.”

“Who accompanies them? I see no older woman yonder.”

“Mrs. Sabin, the lady of Captain Sabin, Staff Commissary of Issues.”

“Where is she, then?”

“We left her with the army at the Ouleout.”

“Where do you propose to quarter these ladies?”

“We understand that you have four block-forts mounting cannon. That would argue barracks. Therefore, I don’t think the danger is very considerable. Do you?”

“There is danger, of course,”