"I do not require so much, Madame; be less grateful, and pending the second we shall yet be together, tell me your name."
"Impossible!"
"You would have told it nevertheless to the first sectionary, if you had been taken to the station."
"No, never!" exclaimed the unknown.
"But in that case you would have gone to prison."
"I had considered all that."
"And prison at this moment—"
"Means the scaffold; I know all that."
"And you would have preferred the scaffold?"