"Good God! what are those fellows doing in here?" she exclaimed.
"I told your majesty—they are parleying."
"But they have entered the inner yards?"
"I thought I had better gain the time somehow for your majesty to come to a resolution."
The door opened.
"Come, come," cried the queen, without knowing that it would be Charny who appeared.
"I am here, madame," he said.
"Oh, is it you? Then I have nothing to say, as you told me a while ago what you thought should be done."
"Then the gentleman thought that the only course was—" said Roederer.
"To die," returned the queen.