Didier fighting): Stop! Help! Help! Help!
[In answer to her cries the town guard arrive.
The Captain of the Guard: Down with your swords! What! Duelling beneath
The edict of the king! You are dead men.
[Didier and Saverny are disarmed and led away.
Marion: What has he done?
[L'Angely points to the edict: she reads it.
Oh, when I called for help
Death came! Is there no way to rescue him?
The king is kind at heart, he will forgive——
L'Angely: But Richelieu will not! He loves red blood,
The scarlet cardinal, he loves red blood!
Marion: You frighten me! Who are you?
L'Angely: The king's fool.