If he were living, he would think it very strange, she said, that we refused; and so on.
"Soissons, too, pretends to remember perfectly that such were the King's intentions.

'Tis a very strange thing, Sir.

Every one knows now the secrets of the late king, if you are willing to listen.

Yet he was not in the habit of taking all the world into his confidence.

The Queen takes her opinions as they give them to her.