"A visit?"
"Just as I tell you. A veiled lady visited him and remained an hour with him. Her face I could not recognize."
"Have you got wings with which to pursue Benedetto?"
"No, Monsieur Beauchamp. At the end of the proceedings I took a carriage and arrived at the prison only a quarter of an hour after Benedetto."
"I call that promptness. You saw the lady then?"
"Yes; I did not recognize her perfectly, but imagine she is the wife of a banker who left for parts unknown about three months ago."
Beauchamp and Chateau-Renaud looked knowingly at one another, while Gratillet continued:
"The lady in question left the prison at ten o'clock and got into her carriage."
"A carriage?"
"No, a hackney coach she had hired."