Athos alone remained unmoved, as if no danger hovered over him, and as if he breathed his customary atmosphere.
On the sixteenth day, in particular, these signs were so strong in d'Artagnan and his two friends that they could not remain quiet in one place, and wandered about like ghosts on the road by which Planchet was expected.
"Really," said Athos to them, "you are not men but children, to let a woman terrify you so! And what does it amount to, after all?
To be imprisoned.

Well, but we should be taken out of prison; Madame Bonacieux was released.

To be decapitated?
Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that--for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head.

Wait quietly, then; in two hours, in four, in six hours at latest, Planchet will be here.

He promised to be here, and I have very great faith in Planchet, who appears to me to be a very good lad." "But if he does not come ?" said d'Artagnan.
"Well, if he does not come, it will be because he has been delayed, that's all.