In what way can I have been made a prisoner?
It must have been owing to a conspiracy of M.Fouquet.I have been drawn to Vaux, as to a snare.

M.
Fouquet cannot be acting alone in this affair.

His agent--That voice that I but just now heard was M.d'Herblay's; I recognized it.

Colbert was right, then.

But what is Fouquet's object?
To reign in my place and stead ?--Impossible.