DIANE.
Forever!
[PAUL kisses her hand. She comes slowly to her father, keeping her eyes in anguish on PAUL.
[The DUKE leads her toward the folding doors which are suddenly thrown open, disclosing a platoon of GUARDS. DIANE shrieks, the DUKE starts back, PAUL turns in horror. TABOOZE advances into the room.
TABOOZE.
In the name of the Republic, I arrest Honoré Albert Maxime, heretofore
Duc de Beaumont.