“That is apparent in your surroundings; you have rapiers here of every form and to suit the most exacting taste.

Do you still fence well?”

“I — I fence as well as you did in the old time — better still, perhaps; I do nothing else all day.”

“And with whom?”

“With an excellent master-at-arms that we have here.”

“What! here?”

“Yes, here, in this convent, my dear fellow. There is everything in a Jesuit convent.”

“Then you would have killed Monsieur de Marsillac if he had come alone to attack you, instead of at the head of twenty men?”