"Did he not send for me to show him how to finish the lock, one he made himself, and of course would not work smoothly?"
"But this press would be smashed and rifled in the capture of the Tuileries."
"There is no danger of that. I defy anybody in the world to get the idea of it, barring him and me."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure and certain. It is just the same as when he left the Tuileries."
"What do you say to all this, Madeleine?" asked Roland of his wife, when they had listened to Gamain's story, told in his prolix style.
"I say the revelation is of the utmost importance, and no time must be lost in verifying it."
The secretary rang for his carriage, whereupon Gamain stood up sulkily.
"I see you have had enough of me," he grumbled.
"Why, no; I only ring for my carriage."