ou?

GOUROC.

[_Speaking quickly_.]

We are Citizens of the Republic!--He

[_Pointing at the_ DUKE.]

is George Leblanc--and I, Citizen Gouroc of the Committee of Public
Safety.

[CARRAC _and_ MOB _draw back with astonishment_.

PAUL.

[_Aside_.]

And Diane!--Is she there?--I must see!

[_Starts, stops_.]

No, no!--They would know me; the hour is not up!

CARRAC.

You, Citizen Gouroc?--I don't believe it.

GOUROC.

[_Holding out papers_.]

Here are our credentials.

CARRAC.

They may be forgeries.

MOB.

Aye--forgeries! forgeries!

CARRAC.

[_To the_ MOB.]

Silence! While we proceed in our examination.

[_The_ MOB _utter low murmurs_. CARRAC _turns to_ NANETTE.]

Who are you?

NANETTE.

[_Advancing defiantly_.]

I am Citizeness Nanette Potin.

POTIN.

[_Aside_.]

My wife!--

[_Sneaks behind comrades_.

CARRAC.

Ha, wait!

[_Seeing_ DIANE, _he drags her forth_.]

By the gods!--here's a feast for Jupiter himself.--Speak out,
delicious wench, and tell us who you are.

DIANE.

I am Diane--

GOUROC.

[_Interrupting quickly_.]

She is Diane Gouroc.--

[_Pointing at the_ DUKE.]

His daughter and my wife.

PAUL.

[_Exploding_.]

Liar!

[_All start and turn toward_ PAUL, _who speaks aside_.]

God help me!--I forget; the hour is not ended.

CARRAC.

Who is it calls this citizen a liar?

GOUJON.

The prisoner.

CARRAC.

Ah, ha! It seems he knows these citizens.--In the name of the law
and the Republic, I summon instantly as a witness Henri de la
Rochejacquelein.

DIANE.

My cousin captured?

[_All turn toward her, amazed_.

GOUROC.

[_Starting_.]

My God!--We're lost!

CARRAC.

So--the prisoner is the beauty's cousin.

[_To_ GOUROC.]

Traitor! You have lied!--This convicts you all.

MOB.

To the guillotine!--To the guillotine!

BOURDOTTE.

No! A marriage! A Republican marriage!

MOB.

Aye! A marriage! marriage!

[BOURDOTTE _drags forth_ NANETTE.

NANETTE.

What are you going to do?

BOURDOTTE.

Tie you to this man and throw you in the river.--That's the way we
marry Royalists!

[_The_ MOB _laugh mockingly_.

NANETTE.

[_Shrieking_.]

Help!

POTIN.

[_Exploding_.]

Damnation!--Tongue or no tongue, I must save her.

[_Bounds forward and frees his wife_.]

Nanette!

NANETTE.

[_Joyfully embracing_ POTIN.]

Dodolphe!

CARRAC.

What does