"Is there an artillery, then?"
"Certainly."
"Of whom does it consist?..."
"Of all our Republican friends: Grouvelle, Guinard, Cavaignac, Étienne Arago, Bastide, Thomas and myself, etc...."
"I should like to join it too."
"That will be difficult because of your position near the king."
"Mine? I have broken off with him completely!"
"Then you are free?"
"As free as air! Besides, there is another way of making myself freer still...."