If the King intended to do anything of the kind, he would do it openly.

He protested that he had never seen anything, or known anything of the League." Here was a man who knew how to keep a secret, and who had no scruples in the matter of dissimulation, however enraged he might be at seeing men and money diverted from his own masterly combinations in order to carry out these schemes of his master.
Mucio, on the contrary, was imprudent and inclined to boast.

His contempt for Henry III, made him blind to the dangers to be apprehended from Henry of Navarre.

He did little, but talked a great deal.
Philip was very anxious that the work should be done both secretly and thoroughly.

"Let the business be finished before Saint John's day," said he to Tassis, when sending fifty thousand dollars for the use of the brothers Guise.