- Sir Percy Blakeney: How many were marked to die?
- Countess La Valliere: I don't know.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: We have saved only thirty.
- Countess La Valliere: Better than none.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: The evening sky is so beautiful.
- Countess La Valliere: History will remember this autumn.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: September.
- Countess La Valliere: September massacres.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: I shall never forget what we saw in those places where...
- Countess La Valliere: Where we came too late.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: It will haunt my dreams forever.
- Countess La Valliere: [They hear shouting and the Countess gets up to see what is happening outside. People are marching and chanting] Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name? Those who have died will soon be forgotten.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: You're very calm, Madame.
- Countess La Valliere: I have no time for tears, Sir Percy.
- Sir Percy Blakeney: I admire your calmness but I do not envy it. By the way, how's the mouse?
- [the Countess had put the mouse one of the children they rescued was playing with in her pocket for safekeeping. She quickly reaches in her pocket and looks stricken]
- Sir Percy Blakeney: Dead?
- [She starts sobbing and he reaches to comfort her]
- Sir Percy Blakeney: I think you meant, that if you allowed yourself to weep, you'd never stop.