"I was a prisoner."
"A prisoner—you!"
"A State prisoner."
"And why were you a prisoner?"
"Because I have saved France."
"Oh, father! are you mad?" cried Bathilde, terrified.
"No, but there has been enough to make me so if I had not had a pretty strong head."
"Oh, explain, for God's sake!"
"Fancy that there was a conspiracy against the regent."
"Oh, mon Dieu!"