"You do not know, then, what passed in the Chambers?"
"No! I only know what has happened at the Théâtre-Français."
"I was obliged to suspend Antony."
"Not to suspend, but to stop it."
"To stop or to suspend...."
"Do not mean the same thing."
"Well, then, I was obliged to stop Antony."
"Obliged? A Minister! How could a Minister be obliged to stop a piece which he had himself taken out of the hands of the prompter of another theatre, when, too, he had engaged his own box to see the first representation of that piece?"
"Yes—obliged, I was compelled to do it!"
"By the article in the Constitutionnel?"