"How came she to be arrested?"
"How should I know, Citizen?"
"Did you betray her? You knew who she was. Take care and do not lie to me."
"I lie, I—Citizen! But I was her best friend, and when that beast Hébert came hanging round——"
"Hébert?"
"She took his fancy, Heaven knows why, and you know her proud ways. Any other girl would have played with him a little, given a smile or two, and kept him off; but she, with her nose in the air, and her eyes looking past him, as if he was n't fit for her to see,—why, she made him feel as if he were the mud under her feet, and what could any one expect? He got her clapped into the Abbaye, to repent at leisure."
Dangeau was a man of clean lips, but now he called down damnation upon Hébert's black soul with an earnestness that frightened Rosalie.
"What more do you know? Tell me at once!"
She turned uneasily from the look in his eyes.
"She will be tried to-day."