His hat was knocked off; and the Duc de Carolan, for it was he, exclaimed in delight: "I thought that I could not be mistaken.

It is himself." Rupert attempted no resistance, for alone and on foot it would have been hopeless.
The governor of the royal castle of Blois was one of the party, and Rupert found himself in another ten minutes standing, with guards on each side of him, before a table in the governor's room, with the governor and the Duc de Carolan sitting as judges before him.
"I have nothing to say," Rupert said, quietly.

"I escaped from Lille because I had been, as I deemed it, unworthily treated in Paris.

I had withdrawn my parole, and was therefore free to escape if I could.

I did escape, but finding the frontier swarmed with French troops, I thought it safer to make for central France, where a wayfarer would not be looked upon as suspiciously as in the north.