In every respect, she fully confirmed my daughter's account.' "'But the vicomte has not been absent from Versailles, for the past month.

He has been at my morning levee, and on all other occasions at my breakfasts and dinners.

He has walked with me in the gardens, and been always present at the evening receptions.' "'That is so, Sire,' I said.

'My daughter, happily, saw him but once; namely, on the morning after she was captured.

He then told her, frankly, that she would remain a prisoner until she consented to marry him, however long the time might be.