"It is the only day that I am sure that I have lived since I came into the world."
"Then you see that you are ungrateful."
"Grant me a second day like this one—"
"I cannot; I must leave Chantilly to-night."
"I don't ask it for to-morrow, nor for the day after to-morrow; I simply ask you for some day in the future. Select whatever time you choose, whatever place you choose, but give me a certainty to live upon; I should suffer too much if I had naught but a hope."
"Where shall you go upon leaving me?"
"To Paris, to report upon the success of my mission."
"And then?"
"To the Bastille, perhaps."
"But assuming that you do not go there?"