There were so many more important arrests to be made that the overworked police of Monsieur de Maupas had only been able to apportion to him a bungler whom Colville had easily outwitted.
"And Madame St.Pierre Lawrence ?" inquired the Marquis.
"Madame quitted Paris on Tuesday for England under the care of John Turner, who had business in London.

He kindly offered to escort her across the Channel." "Then she, at all events, is safe," said the Marquis, with a little wave of the hand indicating his satisfaction.

"He is not brilliant, Monsieur Turner--so few English are--but he is solid, I think." "I think he is the cleverest man I know," said Dormer Colville, thoughtfully.

And before they had spoken again Loo Barebone returned.
He, like Marie, had grasped at once the serious aspect of the situation, whereas the Marquis succeeded only in reaching it with a superficial touch.

He prattled of the political crisis in Paris and bade his friends rest assured that law and order must ultimately prevail.