"They're almost here."
"Go!" Frank snapped at him. Woodrow ran out.
"Go carefully, Woodrow," Nancy called after him.
"Challenging Raoul is just—just madness," said Frank. He went to the mantel and reached for Elysée's pistol.
"Frank, you can't!" Nicole cried.
"What choice do we have?" he said. He took one of the powder horns down and sat to load and prime the pistol.
Auguste said, "Frank, there are too many of them. If you try to fight them you'll only fire that pistol once, and then you'll be dead."
Frank said, "In a few minutes Cooper and the Regulators will be here. All we have to do is hold Raoul and his men off a bit."
"Please," Auguste said. "Let me go out and meet Raoul alone."
Elysée said, "Absolutely not." He stood in his long nightshirt in the doorway of his bedroom. He gestured to Guichard, who had followed him out.