"Fear not! I shall return to it!" replies Robespierre, who has now reached the semicircle, and tries to enter the tribune by another stairway.
But several members standing on the steps push him back.
"No! we will have Tallien! Tallien!"
"After me!" cries Robespierre, still struggling.
"Tallien! Tallien has speech now!"
But Robespierre climbs up by the banister with the fury of a madman.
"Unjust, infamous judges! Will you then only listen to my enemies!"
The Incorruptible is answered by the one cry rising from a hundred throats.
"Silence! Order! Order! Tallien! Tallien!"
Tallien is in the tribune.