"I do not believe it. I only mention what report says. Besides, she has turned the brains of so many others, that this would not be at all surprising. She once fascinated Barnave, they say."
"Never mind; the chevalier must have had confederates even in the Temple."
"Very possibly,—
"Love breaks through bars,
And laughs at bolts."
"Lorin!"
"Ah! it is true."
"Then you think like the rest?"
"Why not?"
"Because according to your account the queen must have had already two hundred lovers."
"Two, three, four hundred. She is quite handsome enough for that. I do not say that she loves them; but in short, they love her. All the world beholds the sun, but the sun does not see all the world."