She, always eager to please, was gratified at the feeling she had inspired; and thus an affectionate tone was from the first established between them, and all reserve was banished from their conversation.

It was not diminished by the admonitions which, as he conceived, his age and greater experience entitled him to address to her, though sometimes they took the form of banter and ridicule, sometimes that of serious reproof;[5] but she bore all his lectures with unvarying good humor, promising him that the time should come when she would make the amendment which he desired; never attempting to conceal from him, and scarcely to excuse, the faults of which she was not unconscious, nor the vexations which in some particulars continually disquieted her.
It was, at least, equally fortunate that the king also conceived a great liking for his brother-in-law at first sight.

His character disposed him to receive with eagerness advice from one who had himself occupied a throne for several years, and whose relationship seemed a sufficient warrant that his counsels would be honest and disinterested.

Accordingly those about him soon remarked that Louis treated the emperor with a cordiality that he had never shown to any one else.

They had many long and interesting conversations, sometimes with Marie Antoinette as a third party, sometimes by themselves.