"Were you there?"
"Yes, indeed! but only for a short time."
"What are you intending to do to-morrow?"
"I confess, General, that was the very question I was going to put to you."
The general leant on my arm and took a few steps forward, as though to get out of sight of his two companions.
"I mean to leave the députies," he said; "there is nothing to be done with them."
"Then why not move without them?"
"Let people drive me to it and I am ready to act."
"Shall I repeat that to my friends?"
"You may."