He was not aware, of course, of Henry's project to kidnap the Marquis on the road, and keep him as a surety for Conde.
The Envoy saw Villeroy after the audience, who told him not to mind the King's ill-temper, but to bear it as patiently as he could.

His Majesty could not digest, he said, his infinite displeasure at the obstinacy of the Prince; but they must nevertheless strive for a reconciliation.

The King was quick in words, but slow in deeds, as the Ambassador might have observed before, and they must all try to maintain peace, to which he would himself lend his best efforts.
As the Secretary of State was thoroughly aware that the King was making vast preparations for war, and had given in his own adhesion to the project, it is refreshing to observe the candour with which he assured the representative of the adverse party of his determination that friendliest relations should be preserved.
It is still more refreshing to find Villeroy, the same afternoon, warmly uniting with Sully, Lesdiguieres, and the Chancellor, in the decision that war should begin forthwith.
For the King held a council at the Arsenal immediately after this interview with Pecquius, in which he had become convinced that Conde would never return.

He took the Queen with him, and there was not a dissentient voice as to the necessity of beginning hostilities at once.
Sully, however, was alone in urging that the main force of the attack should be in the north, upon the Rhine and Meuse.

Villeroy and those who were secretly in the Spanish interest were for beginning it with the southern combination and against Milan.