Were they still at the Bicetre he might do something.

Perhaps the assassins had not yet arrived there.
It was now nine o'clock in the evening.

The streets were almost deserted.

The respectable inhabitants all remained within their houses, trembling at the horrors, of which reports had circulated during the afternoon.

At first there had been hopes that the Assembly would take steps to put a stop to the massacre, but the Assembly did nothing.