I have some here who have been lately at the King of Navarre's Court at St.Jean d'Angely.

If you still maintain that you are the M.de Marsac to whom this commission was entrusted, you will doubtless have no objection to seeing them ?' On this I felt myself placed in a most cruel dilemma if I refused to submit my case to the proposed ordeal, I stood an impostor confessed.
If I consented to see these strangers, it was probable they would not recognise me, and possible that they might deny me in terms calculated to make my position even worse, if that might be.

I hesitated but, Rosny standing inexorable before me awaiting an answer, I finally consented.
'Good!' he said curtly.

'This way, if you please.

They are here.