Séverine. What has happened?

Marquis. Let us get away—let us get away; the mob approaches.

Rollin. How do you propose to get away?

Grasset. It has fallen; the Bastille has fallen!

Host. What say you? Speaks he the truth?

Grasset. Hear you not?

[Albin wants to draw his sword.]

François. Stop that at once, or we are all lost.

Grasset (reeling in down the stairs). And if you hasten, you will still be in time to see quite a merry sight ... the head of our dear Delaunay stuck on a very high pole.

Marquis. Is the fellow mad?