He wished Bernajoux a speedy convalescence, took leave of M.de la Tremouille, returned to his hotel, and immediately sent word to the four friends that he awaited their company at dinner.
M.de Treville entertained good company, wholly anticardinalist, though.
It may easily be understood, therefore, that the conversation during the whole of dinner turned upon the two checks that his Eminence's Guardsmen had received.

Now, as d'Artagnan had been the hero of these two fights, it was upon him that all the felicitations fell, which Athos, Porthos, and Aramis abandoned to him, not only as good comrades, but as men who had so often had their turn that could very well afford him his.
Toward six o'clock M.de Treville announced that it was time to go to the Louvre; but as the hour of audience granted by his Majesty was past, instead of claiming the ENTREE by the back stairs, he placed himself with the four young men in the antechamber.

The king had not yet returned from hunting.

Our young men had been waiting about half an hour, amid a crowd of courtiers, when all the doors were thrown open, and his Majesty was announced.
At his announcement d'Artagnan felt himself tremble to the very marrow of his bones.

The coming instant would in all probability decide the rest of his life.