- Cardinal Mazarin: The people of England will permit anything - except cruelty to horses and a rise in the price of beer.
- Justine de Winter: King Charles' death is inevitable, and France must not interfere. General Cromwell insists.
- Cardinal Mazarin: Roundhead diplomacy. Does he think he can cut off a crowned head, even an English one, and royal France will stand by doing nothing?
- Justine de Winter: What will France do?
- Cardinal Mazarin: Stand by... protesting.