I beg you not to appear again in my presence.[3]" Between the writing of her first and second letters she had heard from Maria Teresa; and she "can not describe how the affection her mother expresses for her has gone to her heart.

Every letter which she has received has filled her eyes with tears of regret at being separated from so tender and loving a mother, and, happy as she is in France, she would give the world to see her family again, if it were but for a moment.

As her mother wishes to know how the days are passed; she gets up between nine and ten, and, having dressed herself and said her morning prayers, she breakfasts, and then she goes to the apartments of her aunts, whose she usually finds the king.

That lasts till half-past ten; then at eleven she has her hair dressed.
"At twelve," she proceeds to say, "what is called the Chamber is held, and there every one who does not belong to the common people may enter.

I put on my rouge and wash my hands before all the world; the men go out, and the women remain; and then I dress myself in their presence.