"You spoke to him, I suppose?"
"To whom?"
"To Vaughan."
"Why, yes! I exchanged a few words with him."
"You knew him, then?"
"My mother knew him. He was an old friend of hers."
"She knew then what he came to Montmorency for?"
"Not in the least. It was quite a chance-meeting. He had lost his way, when they..."
"And you know absolutely nothing of what passed after your departure?"
"Nothing, except that my mother and my fiancée were arrested by Robespierre's infamous orders."