So I did not speak at all of the matter, but talked exclusively and at length of the French regiments in the States' service.

She was embarrassed, and did not know exactly what to say.

At last, without replying a single word to what I had been saying, she became very red in the face, and asked me if I were not instructed to speak of the money due to England.

Whereupon I spoke in the sense already indicated.

She interrupted me by saying she had a perfect recollection that the late king intended and understood that we were to pay the Third to England, and had talked with her very seriously on the subject.