As soon as his eye found Nancay, his face cleared.
"Have you the reckoning ?" he muttered.
"There are seventeen Huguenots in the palace besides their Highnesses," Nancay replied, in the same cautious tone.

"Not counting two or three who are neither the one thing nor the other.

In addition, there are the two Montmorencies; but they are to go safe for fear of their brother, who is not in the trap.

He is too like his father, the old Bench-burner, to be lightly wronged! And, besides, there is Pare, who is to go to his Majesty's closet as soon as the gates are shut.

If the King decides to save any one else, he will send him to his closet.