"What snuffbox?"
"The one in the queen's jewel-case."
"Where did you find that jewel-case?"
"Do you remember the Marquis du Plessy?"
"Yes. A lukewarm loyalist, if loyalist at all in these times."
"My best friend."
"I will say for him that he was not among the first emigrés. If the first emigrés had stayed at home and helped their king, they might have prevented the Terror."
"The Marquis du Plessy stayed after the Tuileries was sacked. He found the queen's jewel-case, and saved it from confiscation to the state."
"Where did he find it? Did you recognize the faces?"
"Oh, instantly!"