OFFICER.
[Advancing.]
Honoré Albert Maxime, Duc de Beaumont, you are called to the guillotine.
[PAUL comes forth in silence.]
Fall in.—Forward, march!
[As the GUARDS start with PAUL, DIANE rushes in with a cry of agony.
DIANE.
Father!—Father!—We have been deceived!
[DIANE rushes into PAUL'S arms; he embraces her passionately.
GUARDS force them apart and go out with PAUL.]
[Held back by GOUROC and NANETTE, DIANE shrieks.]