"I am not on guard at the Temple, and they would not allow me to enter."
"Any one may enter the Temple now."
"How is that?"
"Read this report, since you are so incredulous. I shall only proceed by official information."
"Ah!" said Maurice, reading the report, "has it come to this?"
"Continue."
"Are they going to remove Marie Antoinette to the Conciergerie?"
"They are; and do you think that from a dream, or what you call an imaginary idea or an idle story, the Committee of Public Safety would have adopted so grave a measure?"
"This measure has been adopted; but will never be executed, like many more I have seen sanctioned and all—"
"Read to the end," said the president, and he presented him with the last paper.