Another time she may do better.

When she shall have bribed another to assist her to escape; when she, herself, shall have made off to the shelter of the Queen-mother, perhaps you will regret that my counsel should have fallen upon barren ground." "It is to prevent any such attempt that we have placed her under guard," said he.

"You are forgetting that." "Forgetting it?
Not I.But what assurance have you that she will not bribe her guard ?" Marius laughed, rose, and pushed back his chair.
"Madame," said he, "you are back at your contemplation of the worst side of this affair; you are persisting in considering only how we may be thwarted.

But set your mind at rest.

Gilles is her sentinel.