Lange, were sufficient to reassure her.
"You were so surrounded in the green-room, mademoiselle," he said courteously, "I did not venture to press in among the crowd of your admirers.

Yet I had the great wish to present my respectful congratulations in person." "Ah! c'est ce cher de Batz!" exclaimed mademoiselle gaily, in that exquisitely rippling voice of hers.

"And where in the world do you spring from, my friend?
"Hush-sh-sh!" he whispered, holding her small bemittened hand in his, and putting one finger to his lips with an urgent entreaty for discretion; "not my name, I beg of you, fair one." "Bah!" she retorted lightly, even though her full lips trembled now as she spoke and belied her very words.

"You need have no fear whilst you are in this part of the house.

It is an understood thing that the Committee of General Security does not send its spies behind the curtain of a theatre.