“Ah, you were thinking of Marie! The poor child! May God’s vengeance overtake Luxemburg!”

“And what about Joan?”

“Do you not know? Why, of course you do not, for I have not told you. He has given her up, sold her to the English, the villain!”

“Who has?” cried the astonished Jean.

“The Duke of Luxemburg.”

“God help her! And the King?”

“Pah! the King! He doesn’t care.”

“Oh, the shame!”

“Oh, the disgrace!”

“But by what legal authority have they put Joan in prison?”