"I must get in there, however, I must!" cried the student. "There is no other way to save him."
"To save whom?"
"Ascanio."
"Ascanio? what, that handsome young fellow, your Benvenuto's pupil?"
"Himself, Gervaise. He is in the Châtelet, and he's there by my fault."
"Great God!"
"So that I must join him there," said Jacques, "and save him."
"Why is he in the Châtelet?"
"Because he loved the provost's daughter, and seduced her."
"Poor boy! Why, do they imprison men for that?"