He deceives himself.

Let him cut a hole in the wall on another side, he will not escape through that one.
V THE 5TH OF APRIL, 1852 On the 5th of April, 1852, this is what was witnessed at the Tuileries.
About eight in the evening, the ante-chamber was filled with men in scarlet robes, grave and majestic, speaking with subdued voices, holding in their hands black velvet caps, bedecked with gold lace; most of them were white-haired.

These were the presidents and councillors of the Court of Cassation, the first presidents of the Courts of Appeal, and the procureurs-general: all the superior magistracy of France.
These persons were kept waiting in the ante-chamber.

An aide-de-camp ushered them in and left them there.

A quarter of an hour passed, half an hour, an hour; they wandered up and down the room, conversing, looking at their watches, awaiting the ringing of the bell.