"I think I shall express the wishes of Citizen Trudaine," he
said, addressing Madame Danville, "if I recommend this lady not
to press for too public an answer to her questions."
"Pray who are you, sir, who take it on yourself to advise me?"
she retorted, haughtily. "I have nothing to say to you, except
that I repeat those questions, and that I insist on their being
answered."
"Who is this man?"
asked the general, addressing Trudaine, and pointing to Lomaque.
"A man unworthy of credit," cried Danville, speaking audibly for
the first time, and darting a look of deadly hatred at Lomaque.
"An agent of police under Robespierre."
"And in that capacity capable of answering questions which refer
to the transactions of Robespierre's tribunals," remarked the
ex-chief agent, with his old official self-possession.
"True!" exclaimed the general; "the man is right--let him be
heard."
"There is no help for it," said Lomaque, looking at Trudaine;
"leave it to me--it is fittest that I should speak. I was
present," he continued, in a louder voice, "at the trial of
Citizen Trudaine and his sister. They were brought to the bar
through the denunciation of Citizen Danville. Till the confession
of the male prisoner exposed the fact, I can answer for
Danville's not being aware of the real nature of the offenses
charged against Trudaine and his sister.
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