Then Morice spoke, not angrily, but with humility and steadfast purpose.
"It is true, Gay," he said. "I had forgotten many things, of which you do well and bravely to remind me. Yet Brittany had taught me those neglected lessons already. I came from Kérnak hither to meet my people and cry with them 'Vive le roi'."
"You?"
She was too amazed to speak another word.
"Yes, I. Do not fear that I lie to you, child. I come now as Marquis, not citizen, to my own."
Still she was incredulous.
"But Michael said you had come to bid the peasants of your villages join the patriots—become Revolutionaries."
"I did so come."
"With Marcel Trouet!"
"He went first to Paris; but he will be coming to Varenac."