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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: Antoine turned to me, his face transformed with fury.
'Curse you!' he cried. 'This is some of your work. Now we are
all undone. And my mistresses? SACRE! if I had that gun I
would shoot you like a rat.'
'Steady, fool,' I answered roughly. 'I know no more of this than
you do.'
Which was so true that my surprise was at least as great as his,
and better grounded. The Cardinal, who rarely made a change of
front, had sent me hither that he might not be forced to send
soldiers, and run the risk of all that might arise from such a
movement. What of this invasion, then, than which nothing could
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