[YVETTE _unclasps the jewel from her neck and lets it fall_. I lie, do I? Diable! Just prove I lie! This night we make a little noise in Nantes Shall show Aristocrats who is in danger! Lalain will speak and all the bells will ring, And Angélique will deck herself in red! Steal through yon door, be of us evermore! I lie, do I? Then show me that I lie! YVETTE In Nantes where do you lodge? SÉRAPHINE With Angélique Under the Lanterne, Sign of the Hour Glass. VOICES Nanon! Nanon! You are missing the sights! [_Distant music._ OTHER VOICES _Allons, enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé!_ NANON Come, come away! [SÉRAPHINE _unbars the door in the wall. It swings open_. SÉRAPHINE Faith! One can see the Loire! ‘Tis fine to walk beside it ‘neath the moon! YVETTE Oh!— VOICES _Tremblez, tyrans! et vous perfides_,— NANON Away! Away! YVETTE I’ll go—I’ll go with you. Ye fruit trees and thou fountain, fare ye well! [_Exeunt_ YVETTE, SÉRAPHINE, NANON. _The door swings to. Lightning and thunder._ SISTER FIDELIS _appears in the convent door_. VOICES (_dying away_) _Aux armes, Citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!_ _CURTAIN_ [Illustration] [Illustration] _ACT III_ _A square in Nantes. On the left the deep porch of a church with pillars. To the right and in the background, a perspective of streets with tall, many-windowed houses. Opposite the church a great plaster statue of Liberty. Over the church door is written in white lettering: “The Republic One and Indivisible. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. National Property.” A distant view of the Loire. Men and women in holiday garb, wearing liberty caps and great tricoloured cockades, cross and recross the square. Life, movement, colour. Red the dominant note. It is the year 1794._ _Hoarse voices within. Hawkers of Revolutionary journals cross the square._ A HAWKER _Le Journal des Jacobins!_ ANOTHER _Le Discours De la Lanterne!_ _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE. A THIRD