Eloise [the new-comer]. Is he still there?
Anne. I lost sight of him in the crowd. I think he has gone. If only he does not come back!
Louis [with grim conviction]. He will.
Anne. I am trying to hope not.
Eloise. I have told you from the first that you overestimate his importance. Haven't I said it often enough?
Anne [under her breath]. You have!
Eloise [coldly]. He will not harm you.
Anne [looking out of the window]. More people down there; they are running to the wine-shop.
Louis. Gentle idlers! [The sound of triumphant shouting comes up from the street below.] That means that the list of the guillotined has arrived from Paris.
Anne [shivering]. They are posting it in the wine-shop window. [The shouting increases suddenly to a roar of hilarity, in which the shrilling of women mingles.]