Count Louis
Monsieur le Baron!
The Abbé
René de Vardes!
De Vardes
Monsieur le Comte, Monsieur l’Abbé, again
I find myself in best of company!
[The judges whisper together. Lalain, his eyes
upon the floor, drums upon the table with his hand.
Yvette unpins the tricolour cockade from her breast,