But she was not particularly concerned with the characters or personalities of her employers.
All she wished to do was to get out of Paris, feeling quite certain that Napoleon’s soldiers would be searching for them having not found them as had been expected in their apartment.
The coach drawn by four horses moved off slowly and soon joined the other coaches, chaises and cabriolets that drove with amazing rapidity over the irregular paving stones of Paris.
From inside the carriage yesterday, Jabina had not noticed what a deafening noise the traffic made splashing through the gutters that ran down the middle of the streets.
She had also not been aware that the lack of foot pavements such as there were in London, made it very dangerous for those who had to walk.
She thought that the poor
