What kind of relationship do the prisoners have with each other? How do they respond when the names of those summoned are called? (From Book 3 Chapters 6-10)

The prisoners are social and friendly, but they are also emotionally detached. Kindness ruled, tears fell during goodbyes, but the goodbyes were so commonplace (everyday) that the prisoners couldn't help but become desensitized. Evenings were planned; gambling and entertainment. They needed distraction, and those moments were too short, as the process would soon begin again.

There were hurried words of farewell and kindness, but the parting was soon over. It was the incident of every day, and the society of La Force were engaged in the preparation of some games of forfeits and a little concert, for that evening. They crowded to the grates and shed tears there; but, twenty places in the projected entertainments had to be refilled, and the time was, at best, short to the lock-up hour, when the common rooms and corridors would be delivered over to the great dogs who kept watch there through the night. The prisoners were far from insensible or unfeeling; their ways arose out of the condition of the time. Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease-- a terrible passing inclination to die of it. And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.