surprised that there are those who say advocates are know-nothings.
But I should like to have back my fourteen hundred francs. Pamela is
accused, that is to say, she accuses me of having betrayed his head to
the executioner, and you will understand that if after all he escapes,
and is transported, I can marry, can wed Pamela; and as the
transported man will not be in France, I need fear no disturbance in
my home. Get him fifteen years; that is nothing; fifteen years for
traveling and I shall have time to see my children grow up, and my
wife old enough--you understand--

Dupre (aside)
He is candid, at any rate--Those who make their calculations aloud and
in such evident excitement are not the worst of people.

Joseph
I say! Do you know the proverb--"A lawyer who talks to himself is like
a pastry cook who eats his own wares,"--eh, sir?

Dupre
I understand you to say that Pamela is in love with M. Jules?

Joseph
Ah! I see, you understand matters.

Dupre
They used frequently to meet I suppose?

Joseph
Far too frequently! Oh! if I had only known it, I would have put a
stop to it!

Dupre
Is she pretty?

Joseph
Who?--Pamela?--My eye! My Pamela! She is as pretty as the Apollo
Belvidere!

Dupre
Keep your fourteen hundred francs, my friend, and if you have courage,
you and your Pamela, you will be able to help me in effecting his
deliverance; for the question is absolutely whether we must let him go
to the scaffold, or save him from it.

Joseph
I beg you, sir, do not think of saying one word to Pamela; she is in
despair.

Dupre
Nevertheless you must bring it about that I see her this morning.

Joseph
I will send word to her through her parents.

Dupre
Ah! she has a father and mother living then? (Aside) This will cost a
lot of money. (Aloud) Who are they?

Joseph
They are respectable porters.

Dupre
That is good.

Joseph
Old Giraud is a ruined tailor.

Dupre
Very well, go and inform them of my intended visit, and above all
things preserve the utmost secrecy, or M. Jules will be sacrificed.

Joseph
I shall be dumb.

Dupre
And let it be thought that we have never met.

Joseph
We have never seen each other.

Dupre
Now go.

Joseph
I am going.

(He mistakes the door.)

Dupre
This is the way.

Joseph
This is the way, great advocate--but let me give