"Your features are distorted; your lips tremble.
My God! what does this mean ?" "It is nothing!" said Catharine, with a smile full of agony.

"The excitement and alarm of to-day have exhausted my strength.

That is all.
Besides, a new grief threatens us, of which you as yet know nothing.
The king is ill.

A sudden dizziness seized him, and made him fall almost lifeless at my side.

I came to bring you the king's message; now duty calls me to my husband's sickbed.