POTIN.

There goes the Phantom!


NANETTE.

[_Starting_.]

The dumb girl of the guillotine!


POTIN.

Who glides like a phantom through the streets, without home, friend,
or occupation.


NANETTE.

[_With horror_.]

Except to stand by the scaffold, and count the heads that fall from
the guillotine.


POTIN.

They say that calamity overtakes everyone she follows: that it's
disaster to stand in her way, and sure death to notice her.