"But by whom?" asked Clarisse.
"By the dead!"
Clarisse and Thérèse were startled.
"The dead?"
"Yes ... But you cannot understand..."
Robespierre looked straight before him as if following the train of some fleeting thought.... Suddenly he rose.
"Enough of that, however. Let us think of your safety."
He then beckoned to Urbain, who advanced.
"Conduct the citoyennes to the next room, and do as I have already instructed you!"
Loud cries and calls from the Commune's Council Hall, resounded through the open door.