"Well, monsieur, I will think seriously of what you have said, but in your place—"
"In my place?"
"I would renounce this enterprise."
"I wish I had never entered into it, monseigneur, I own, for since I did so a great change has taken place in my life, but I am in it, and must accomplish it."
"Even if I refuse to second you?"
"The Breton committee have provided for that emergency."
"And decided—"
"To do without you."
"Then your resolution—"
"Is irrevocable."