MARION.

Who told you?

DIDIER.

No one; but I understand.

MARION.

Didier, I swear by every hope divine
It was to save you, tear you from this place;
To melt the executioner—to save you—
Don't you hear?

DIDIER (folding his arms).

I thank you! To descend
As low as that! To have no shame, no soul!
Oh, madame! can one be so infamous?

[Crossing the court with a great cry of rage.

[He is about to break the portrait in his hands, but he stops, and beside himself, continues.