“By bribery.”
“Have you approached the milliner, the hairdresser, and the coachman on the subject?”
“Heavens no! The thing is to be done at the last moment; give them time to think and they would talk.”
“And who is to pay the bribes?”
“Choiseul; who else? It will cost three hundred thousand francs; but were it to cost a million, the million is there.”
“And suppose they resist?”
“That has also been taken into consideration. If they resist, then force must be used. You must have five companions ready to your call, should you need them.”
“I can easily find five men,” said Camus. “I have only to whisper the name of Dubarry, and they would spring from the pavement.”
“They must all be gentlemen,” said Coigny, “for in an affair of this sort, nothing must be trusted to servants.”
“Just so. Who are the coach people?”