My brother thought this plan full of danger, both for herself, for her son, and for the honest old man who was risking his head for his mistress's sake.

I thought so too; and in an evil hour I said to Louis: 'Will you try in secret to get my husband's mother away, and see that her faithful servant makes her really leave France this time ?' I wrongly asked my brother to do this for a selfish reason of my own--a reason connected with my married life, which has not been a happy one.

I had not succeeded in gaining my husband's affection, and was not treated kindly by him.

My brother--who has always loved me far more dearly, I am afraid, than I have ever deserved--my brother increased his kindness to me, seeing me treated unkindly by my husband.

This made ill-blood between them.