Her voice was vibrant with earnestness. "Andre, you don't realize
how serious is your position. If these people take you, it is almost
certain that you will be hanged. Don't you realize it? You must
not go to Gavrillac. You must go away at once, and lie completely
lost for a time until this blows over. Indeed, until my uncle can
bring influence to bear to obtain your pardon, you must keep in hiding."
"That will be a long time, then," said Andre-Louis. M. de Kercadiou
has never cultivated friends at court."
"There is M. de La Tour d'Azyr," she reminded him, to his
astonishment.
"That man!" he cried, and then he laughed. "But it was chiefly
against him that I aroused the resentment of the people of Rennes.
I should have known that all my speech was not reported to you."
"It was, and that part of it among the rest."
"Ah! And yet you are concerned to save me, the man who seeks the
life of your future husband at the hands either of the law or of the
people? Or is it, perhaps, that since you have seen his true nature
revealed in the murder of poor Philippe, you have changed your views
on the subject of becoming Marquise de La Tour d'Azyr?"
"You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
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