“Faith, citizen,” said he (the word citizen was still used in public places), “I tell you frankly I was not at all sorry to see daylight this morning.”
“Cannot monsieur sleep in a coach?” asked the doctor.
“Oh, yes, sir,” replied the compatriot of Jean-Jacques; “on the contrary, I usually sleep straight through the night. But anxiety was stronger than fatigue this time.”
“Were you afraid of upsetting?” asked the architect.
“No. I’m very lucky in that respect; it seems enough for me to be in a coach to make it unupsettable. No, that wasn’t it.”
“What was it, then?” questioned the doctor.
“They say in Geneva that the roads in France are not safe.”
“That’s according to circumstances,” said the architect.
“Ah! how’s that?” inquired the watchmaker.
“Oh!” replied the architect; “if, for example, we were carrying government money, we would surely be stopped, or rather we would have been already.”