Besides, I long ago determined to put an end to all these petty intrigues of policy and love.

She has near her a certain Laporte." "Who, I believe, is the mainspring of all this, I confess," said the cardinal.
"You think then, as I do, that she deceives me ?" said the king.
"I believe, and I repeat it to your Majesty, that the queen conspires against the power of the king, but I have not said against his honor." "And I--I tell you against both.

I tell you the queen does not love me; I tell you she loves another; I tell you she loves that infamous Buckingham! Why did you not have him arrested while in Paris ?" "Arrest the Duke! Arrest the prime minister of King Charles I! Think of it, sire! What a scandal! And if the suspicions of your Majesty, which I still continue to doubt, should prove to have any foundation, what a terrible disclosure, what a fearful scandal!" "But as he exposed himself like a vagabond or a thief, he should have been--" Louis XIII stopped, terrified at what he was about to say, while Richelieu, stretching out his neck, waited uselessly for the word which had died on the lips of the king.
"He should have been-- ?" "Nothing," said the king, "nothing.

But all the time he was in Paris, you, of course, did not lose sight of him ?" "No, sire." "Where did he lodge ?" "Rue de la Harpe.

No.75." "Where is that ?" "By the side of the Luxembourg." "And you are certain that the queen and he did not see each other ?" "I believe the queen to have too high a sense of her duty, sire." "But they have corresponded; it is to him that the queen has been writing all the day.