However, we can consider the affair as happily ended, except for the matter of Monsieur de la Vallee, of whom I spoke to you.
"And now, sir, that the king has expressed his gratitude to you, for saving his court from a grave scandal, how can I fitly express my own, at the inestimable service that you have rendered us ?" "I should say, Baron, that it will be most welcomely expressed, if you will abstain from saying more of the matter.

It is a simple one.

I went to the assistance of a woman in distress; and succeeded, at the expense of this trifling wound, in accomplishing her rescue.

The lady happened to be your daughter, but had she been but the daughter of some little bourgeois of Paris, carried off by a reckless noble, it would have been the same.

Much more has been made of the matter than there was any occasion for.