Vautrin Good; let him get up behind my carriage. I want to give you my orders about locking up the Prince d'Arjos, who thinks he is going to fight a duel to-morrow.
Raoul I see that you are in danger. I will not leave you, and I desire to know—
Vautrin Nothing. Do not worry about your own security. I will look out for you, in spite of you.
Raoul
Oh! I know what my future will be.
Vautrin
I too know.
Lafouraille
Come, things are getting hot.
Vautrin
Nay, the fat is in the fire.
Lafouraille No time for sentiment, or dilly-dallying, they are on our track and are mounted.
Vautrin Let us be off then. (He takes Lafouraille aside) If the government should do us the honor to billet its gendarmes on us, our duty is to let them alone. All are at liberty to scatter; but let all be at Mother Giroflee's at midnight. Get off post haste, for I do not wish us to meet our Waterloo, and the Prussians are upon us. We must run for it.
Curtain to the Fourth Act.