He hoped that in her heart remorse would not be too bitter; and he looked forward with joy to the next few hours, which he would pass near her, during which he could perhaps still console and soothe her.
She was but the victim of an ideal, of Fate stronger than her own will.
She stood, an innocent martyr to the great mistake of her life.
But the minutes sped on.

Foucquier-Tinville had evidently completed his new indictments.
The one against Juliette Marny was read out first.

She was now accused of conspiring with Paul Deroulede against the safety of the Republic, by having cognisance of a treasonable correspondence carried on with the prisoner, Marie Antoinette; by virtue of which accusation the Public Prosecutor asked her if she had anything to say.
"No," she replied loudly and firmly.

"I pray to God for the safety and deliverance of our Queen, Marie Antoinette, and for the overthrow of this Reign of Terror and Anarchy." These words, registered in the "Bulletin du Tribunal Revolutionnaire" were taken as final and irrefutable proofs of her guilt, and she was then summarily condemned to death.
She was then made to step down from the dock and Deroulede to stand in her place.
He listened quietly to the long indictment which Foucquier-Tinville had already framed against him the evening before, in readiness for this contingency.

The words "treason against the Republic" occurred conspicuously and repeatedly.