Scene IV
The same. Marion
Marion.
What is this noise?
[Perceiving Didier under the lamp.
Didier!
[To the combatants.] Stop!
[They continue.] Ho! The guard!
SAVERNY.
Who is this woman?
DIDIER (turning).
Heaven!
BOUCHAVANNES (running, to Saverny).
All is lost!
That woman’s cry went through the town.
I saw the archers’ rapiers flash.
[The Archers with torches enter.
BRICHANTEAU (to Saverny).
Seem dead,
Or you will be so!
SAVERNY (falling down).
Ah!
[Low to Brichanteau, who bends over him.
Oh, damn these stones.
[Didier, who thinks he has killed him, pauses.
CAPTAIN OF THE DISTRICT.
Hold! In the King’s name!
BRICHANTEAU (to the noblemen).
We must save the Marquis.
He’s a dead man if he is caught.
[The noblemen surround Saverny.
CAPTAIN OF THE DISTRICT.
Zounds, sirs!
To fight a duel ’neath the very light
Of the edict is bold indeed!
[To Didier.] Give up
Your sword.
[The Archers seize Didier, who stands apart, and disarm him. The Captain indicates Saverny stretched upon the ground and surrounded by the noblemen.
That other man with dull eyes, who
Is he? What is his name?
BRICHANTEAU.
His name’s Gaspard,
Marquis de Saverny, and he is dead.
CAPTAIN OF THE DISTRICT.
Dead, is he? Then his trouble’s over. Good!
This dead man’s worth more than the other.
MARION (frightened).
What!
CAPTAIN OF THE DISTRICT (to Didier).
The whole affair rests now with you, sir. Come!
[The Archers lead Didier off on one side, the noblemen carry Saverny off on the other.
DIDIER (to Marion, who is motionless from horror).
Forget me, Marion. Good-by! [They exit.