The situation is without resources.

We must wait; but at this moment fighting would be madness.

What do you hope for ?" "Nothing," said I.
"And what are you going to do ?" "Everything." By the tone of my voice he understood that further persistence was useless.
"Good-bye," he said.
We parted.

He disappeared in the darkness.

I have never seen him since.
I went up again to Lafon's rooms.
In the meantime the copies of the appeal to arms did not come to hand.
The Representatives, becoming uneasy, went up and downstairs.