here. But three days ago, he came to see your servant and seemed
scared almost to death, and he is hidden here, as in a sanctuary, up
in the attic.

Dupre
Call him down-stairs.

Giraud
He will not come, sir; he is too much afraid of being arrested--they
pass him up food through a hole in the ceiling!

Dupre
He will soon be at liberty, I hope. I am expecting a letter which will
relieve all your minds.

Giraud
At once?

Dupre
I expect the letter this evening.

Giraud (to his wife)
I am going to make my way cautiously to the house.

(Madame Giraud accompanies him, and gives him advice. Pamela arises to
follow her.)

Dupre (restraining Pamela)
You are not in love with this Binet, are you?

Pamela
Oh, never!

Dupre
And the other?

Pamela (struggling with her feelings)
I shall love none but you!

(Pamela starts to leave the room. A noise is heard in the antechamber.
Jules appears.)

SCENE SECOND

Pamela, Dupre and Jules.

Jules (to the servants)
Let me pass! I tell you--I must speak to him at once! (Noticing Dupre)
Ah, sir! What has become of Pamela? Is she at liberty? Is she safe?

Pamela (stopping at the door)
Jules!

Jules
Good heavens! You here?

Dupre
And you, sir, I thought you were at Brussels?

Jules
Yes, they sent me away against my will, and I yielded to them! Reared
as I have been in obedience, I still tremble before my family! But I
carried away with me the memory of what I had left behind! It has
taken me six months to realize the situation, and I now acknowledge
that I risked my life in order to obtain the hand of Mlle. de Verby,
that I might gratify the ambition of my family, or, if you like, might
honor my own vanity. I hoped some day to be a man of title, I, the son
of a rich stock-broker! Then I met Pamela, and I fell in love with
her! The rest you know! What was a mere sentiment has now become a
duty, and every hour that has kept me from her I have felt that
obedience to my family was rank cowardice; and while they believe I am
far away, I have returned! You told me she had been arrested--and to
think that I should run away (to both of them) without coming to see
you, who had been my deliverer, and will be hers also.

Dupre (looking at them)
Good! Very good! He is an honorable fellow after all.

Pamela (aside, drying he