[He listens at the small door.
MARION (wringing her hands).
You'll save him?
LAFFEMAS.
Yes.
[Low.] To tell you in this place—
The walls have echoes—elsewhere.
MARION (with despair).
Come!
[Laffemas goes toward the large door and signs to her to follow. She falls on her knees, turned toward the grating of the prison; then she arises with a convulsive effort and disappears through the great door after Laffemas. Saverny and Didier enter, surrounded by Guards.
SCENE III
Didier, Saverny. Saverny, dressed in the latest fashion, enters gayly and petulantly. Didier is in black, walks slowly, is very pale. A jailer accompanied by Halberdiers conducts them. The Jailer places the two Halberdiers as sentinels beside the black curtain. Didier sits, silently, on the stone bench