He was mentally rehearsing the speech which he had to deliver at Chevalier's grave.
When the funeral procession turned towards the shabby grass-plots which overflow the Avenue de l'Observatoire, the tram-cars, out of respect for the dead, made way for it.
Trublet remarked upon this.
"Men," he said, "respect death, since they rightly believe that, if it is respectable to die, every one is assured of being respectable in that, at least." The actors were excitedly discussing Chevalier's death.

Durville, mysteriously, and in a deep voice, disclosed the tragedy: "It is not a case of suicide.

It is a crime of passion.

Monsieur de Ligny surprised Chevalier with Nanteuil.

He fired seven revolver shots at him.