"Have you seen the gibbet in the Square?
Do you call that no danger ?" "It is not erected for you." "No ?" "No, Monsieur," she answered firmly, "I swear it is not.

And I know of reasons, urgent reasons, why you should not go.

M.de Tavannes"-- she named her husband nervously, as conscious of the weak spot--"before he rode abroad laid strict orders on all to keep within, since the smallest matter might kindle the city.

Therefore, M.de Tignonville, I request, nay I entreat," she continued with greater urgency, as she saw his gesture of denial, "you to stay here until he returns." "And you, Madame, will answer for my life ?" She faltered.

For a moment, a moment only, her colour ebbed.