"It is all-important to avoid any agitation now.

To-morrow, I hope, it will be safer, and the doctor will give him a sleeping-draught, so that he shall not wake while you are away.

But, Marie, remember it will be a farewell visit, for I dare not let them stay more than another day.

They may be denounced again at any hour, for the man who wrote to Robespierre, if he finds that nothing comes of it, may go to the local committee, and they will not lose an hour, you may be sure." "I must see them this evening, then," Marie said hurriedly.

"The doctor will be here, you say, soon.