Is There Still Time to Avert the Disaster?

Vincent oje: At the moment of our waking, blood will flow. The slave will have raised the standard of revolt. But gentlemen, he said, there is still time to avert the disaster. If the assembly wishes to admit me, if it authorizes me to draw up and submit to it my plan, i will do so with pleasure and even gratitude. And perhaps i will be able to contribute to the warding off the storm that rumbles above our heads.