“Is the militia on the King’s side?” “Oh, everybody is on the King’s side,” her husband said. “It’s just his ministers and his servants and his brothers and his wife we can’t stand. Louis is all right, silly old duffer.” “But why do people say that Lafayette’s a republican?” “In America he’s a republican.” “Are there any republicans here?” “Very few.” “Would they kill the King?” “Heavens, no. We leave that sort of thing to the English.”
