I respond for her; for she has promised to marry me, the delegate of Burgundy to the Commune.

The young woman is the daughter of the man called the Marquis de St.Caux, who met his deserved fate on the 2d of September." "You are willing to respond for her, citizen ?" Robespierre said.
"I am.

The fact that she will be my wife is surely a guarantee ?" "It is," Robespierre said.

"What you tell me convinces me that I can without damage to the cause of the people grant your request.
I am the more glad to do so since my secretary has also prayed for her life.

But though he rendered me the greatest service, and I owe to him a debt of gratitude, I was obliged to refuse; for to grant his request would have been to allow private feeling to interfere with the justice of the people; but now it is different.
You tell me that, except by birth, she is no aristocrat; that she has long been a friend of the people, and that she is going to be your wife; on these grounds I can with a good conscience grant her release." Lebat had looked with astonishment at Harry as Robespierre spoke.
"Thank you, citizen," he said to Robespierre.