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It was impossible they could have had news of it in Rennes
and acted upon it in so short a time.
"Yes, sedition. The sedition of that wicked speech of yours at
Rennes on Wednesday."
"Oh, that!" said he. "Pooh!" His note of relief might have told
her, had she been more attentive, that he had to fear the consequences
of a greater wickedness committed since. "Why, that was nothing."
"Nothing?"
"I almost suspect that the real intentions of these gentlemen of
the marechaussee have been misunderstood. Most probably they have
come to thank me on M. de Lesdiguieres' behalf. I restrained the
people when they would have burnt the Palais and himself inside it."
"After you had first incited them to do it. I suppose you were
afraid of your work. You drew back at the last moment. But you
said things of M. de Lesdiguieres, if you are correctly reported,
which he will never forgive."
"I see," said Andre-Louis, and he fell into thought.
But Mlle. de Kercadiou had already done what thinking was necessary,
and her alert young mind had settled all that was to be done.


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