She saw it as the king intended, but the result was far from what he expected.
"I turned my back on him," she said angrily, "and left him without so much as a word or a courtesy, and I intend to leave Whitehall." "By no means!" I exclaimed.

"Accept or refuse the king's pension as you choose, and pass serenely on your way, unconscious of what he may have implied.

If you remain at court, you must learn not to see a mere implied affront, and perhaps to smile at many an overt one.

Before you came you had full warning of what would happen.

Don't see! Don't feel! Don't care! Be true to yourself and smile at the devil if you happen to meet him.