FIRST MARQUIS.

The colour is fast and true; for soon, thanks to your valor, the Spaniard will be worse than uneasy in Flanders!

GUICHE.

I am going to my seat on the stage. Are you coming?

(He and his followers walk up on to the stage. Guiche turns and calls.)

Come along, Valvert!

CHRISTIAN (who has heard, starting).

That viscount! Now I'll fling at him!....

(Puts his hand to his pocket and finds there the hand of a thief.)

(holding on to the pickpocket).