"I thank you for your advice, monsieur," I said, laughing in my turn; "but I doubt whether my companions will be disposed to follow the latter part of it."
"Then it will be so much the worse for them, monsieur!"
I bowed and turned to go away.
"By the bye," he said, "when will Antony appear? Is not that the title of the first play you mean to have performed?"
"Yes, Captain."
"When?"
"When we have accomplished the Revolution, seeing that the Censorship has suppressed my play, and that it needs nothing less than a Revolution to permit the performance of it—so they have told me at the Ministry of the Interior."
The officer shook his head.
"Then I am very much afraid, monsieur, that the play will never see daylight."
"You are afraid of that?"