HOW JEHANE STROKED WHAT ALOIS HAD MADE FIERCE When the Count of Saint-Pol came to Paris he found the going very delicate.

For it is a delicate matter to confer in a king's capital, with a king's allies, how best to throw obstacles in that king's way.

As a matter of fact he found that he could do little or nothing in the business.

King Philip was in great feather concerning his sister's arrival; the heralds were preparing to go out to meet her.

Nicholas d'Eu and the Baron of Quercy were to accompany them; King Philip thought Saint-Pol the very man to make a third, but this did not suit the Count at all.