Why is he to go to the douane, and thrust himself into the very jaws of danger?
The ordeal of the Swiss douane was still somewhere ahead; we had entered the neutral strip.
"Wait a moment," he said, leading her aside towards the waiting-room, while the crowd that was going to the douane passed them by.
Those Italian ruffians of the douane, with their disgusting search-light!
It is three or four kilometres from the rope of the frontier to the French line of douane and its customs-gendarmes.
