Then prepare for sudden and secret flight.
DIANE.
[Starting.]
Flight! Where can we be safer than under our present host's protection?
GOUROC.
Under mine, Mademoiselle. Kauvar is a man of the people. To him such words as loyalty, truth and honour are but empty puffs of air.
DIANE.
[Proudly and passionately.]
On whose lips is there meaning purer, or prouder, than on Paul
Kauvar's?