I believe you did it intentionally." "In which case your Majesty will leave no more notes for me in public," answered Frances.

And the king's choice lay between taking offence and looking upon the affair as a jest.

He was too far gone in love to take offence, so he chose to laugh.
On another occasion, at the queen's ball, the king asked Frances to walk out to the garden with him.
"It is dark, your Majesty, and I fear the dark," she replied.

"Let us walk there in the daytime, so that every one may see how graciously my king honors me." He could not coax her out, so he said: "Very well, my prudish Miss Solomon.

Have your way and break my heart." "To do either would please me," she retorted.