Laurence lived only, after the catastrophes at Troyes, for the triumph of the royal cause.

After soberly judging Monsieur and Madame d'Hauteserre (who lived with her at the chateau de Cinq-Cygne), and recognizing their honest, but stolid natures, she put them outside the lines of her own life.

She had, moreover, too good a mind and too sound a judgment to complain of their natures; always kind, amiable, and affectionate towards them, she nevertheless told them none of her secrets.

Nothing forms a character so much as the practice of constant concealment in the bosom of a family.
After she attained her majority Laurence allowed Monsieur d'Hauteserre to manage her affairs as in the past.

So long as her favorite mare was well-groomed, her maid Catherine dressed to please her, and Gothard the little page was suitably clothed, she cared for nothing else.