"I do not say he is arrested, since we see him alone in his carriage."
"Well, then, what is he doing here?"
"Oh! he knows Baisemeaux, the governor," replied the musketeer, slyly; "so we have arrived just in time."
"What for?"
"In order to see what we can see."
"I regret this meeting exceedingly. When Aramis sees me, he will be very much annoyed, in the first place, at seeing me, and in the next at being seen."
"Very well reasoned."
"Unfortunately there is no remedy for it; whenever any one meets another in the Bastille, even if he wished to draw back to avoid him, it would be impossible."
"Athos, I have an idea; the question is, to spare Aramis the annoyance you were speaking of, is it not?"
"What is to be done?"