"Then you are in the king's service?"
"I have that honor."
"And yet you save M. de Mayenne? Permit me to tell you, monsieur, that that is not being a good servant."
"I think differently."
"Well, perhaps you are right. What is your name?"
"Ernanton de Carmainges."
"Well, M. Ernanton, what are we to do with this great carcase?"
"I will watch over M. de Mayenne, monsieur."
"And his follower, who is listening there?"
"The poor devil hears nothing; I have bound him too tightly, and he has fainted."