gabriel omitted to mention that when hed been told of the bright pink post-it note that shed stuck to the chateau door the evening before , via a phone call from bertrand , that had outlined her plans for the next day , hed engineered , after a hurried phone call to the head gardener of the chateau shed said she was visiting first , a legitimate if somewhat flimsy excuse for bertrand and himself to travel to the chateau that morning at a time that would coincide with her own visit .