Few words were spoken, as the group of officers returned to the town.

When they reached Cathelineau's quarters Leigh would have gone on, but the general said, "Come in, if you please, Monsieur Stansfield," and he followed the party in.
"This has been a trial, gentlemen, a heavy trial," the general said.

"When I entered upon this work, I knew that that there were many things that I should have to endure.

I knew the trouble of forming soldiers from men who, like ours, prize their freedom and independence above all other things; that we might have to suffer defeat; that we must meet with hardships, and probably death; and that, in the long run, all our efforts might be futile.
"But I had not reckoned on having to deal with treachery.

I had never dreamed that one of my first acts would have been to try and to sentence a Vendean to death, for an act of the grossest treachery.