“Good-day, Citoyenne.”
“Good-day, sir.”
“Are you satisfied with your quarters? Have you any complaints to make of your treatment. Do you want anything?”
“I complain because I am here and I ask to be released.”
“Isn’t your health good? Are you a little dull?”
“I am well and I am never dull. L’ennui is a disease of an empty soul and a mind without resources, but I have a lively sense of injustice. I complain because I have been arrested without reason, and am detained without being examined.”
“Ah, in a time of revolution there is so much to do that one cannot accomplish everything.”
“A woman to whom King Philip made about the same answer told him, ‘If you have not the time to do justice you have not time to be king.’ Take care that you do not force oppressed citizens to say the same thing to the people, or rather to the arbitrary authorities who are misleading them.”
“Adieu, Citoyenne.”
“Adieu.”