Chapter 21 No.21

"They have most power to hurt us whom we love;

We lay our sleeping lives within their arms."

Beaumont and Fletcher.

A short avenue of chestnut trees, now in their scented glory of rose-pink blossom, hid the square red-brick hunting lodge, still known by its pre-Revolution name of Le Pavillon du Dauphin, from the broad solitary roadway skir