He hated the man! He had suffered humiliation through him individually.

He wished to see him as an object of contempt rather than of pity.

And because of the anticipation of this joy, he was careful of his life, and throughout those two days which elapsed between the capture of Marguerite and the arrival of Collot d'Herbois at Boulogne, Chauvelin never left his quarters at the Hotel de Ville, and requisitioned a special escort consisting of proved soldiers of the town guard to attend his every footstep.
On the evening of the 22nd, after the arrival of Citizen Collot in Boulogne, he gave orders that the woman from No.

6 cell be brought before him in the ground floor room of the Fort Gayole..