Jumièges, a village in Normandy, 15 miles

west of Rouen, on the river Seine. For Rouen, see note to p. 29, 13.

l'installation, the accommodations, the room.

un garde; the complète expression un garde chasse, game keeper, is rendered useless by the context.

gendarme en retraite, a retired policeman.

Le père Cavalier, the old Cavalier.

chenapan (colloquial), a good-for-nothing, a scamp.