The sight of this document reassured Madame Danville.

She bade her son farewell, and departed at last, with one trusty servant, for Marseilles.
Danville's intention, in sending his letter to Paris, had been simply to save himself by patriotic bluster.

He was thunderstruck at receiving a reply, taking him at his word, and summoning him to the capital to accept employment there under the then existing Government.

There was no choice but to obey.

So to Paris he journeyed, taking his wife with him into the very jaws of danger.