LADY (in dignified reproof). General: do you threaten women?

NAPOLEON (bluntly). Yes.

LADY (disconcerted, trying to gain time). But I don't understand.
I--

NAPOLEON. You understand perfectly. You came here because your
Austrian employers calculated that I was six leagues away. I am
always to be found where my enemies don't expect me. You have
walked into the lion's den. Come: you are a brave woman. Be a
sensible one: I have no time to waste. The papers. (He advances a
step ominously).

LADY (breaking down in the childish rage of impotence, and
throwing herself in tears on the chair left beside the table by
the lieutenant). I brave! How little you know! I have spent the
day in an agony of fear. I have a pain here from the tightening
of my heart at every suspicious look, every threatening movement.
Do you think every one is as brave as you? Oh, why will not you
brave people do the brave things? Why do you leave them to us,
who have no courage at all? I'm not brave: I shrink from
violence: danger makes me miserable.

NAPOLEON (interested). Then why have you thrust yourself into
danger?

LADY. Because there is no other way: I can trust nobody else. And
now it is all useless--all because of you, who have no fear,