'The King! You forget the King.

Let the Cardinal once pipe to him and he will dance.
And they will dance too!' I added grimly.
'Yes,' Frison answered eagerly.

'True, your Excellency, but the King will not see him.

Three times to-day, as I am told, the Cardinal has driven to the Luxembourg and stood like any common man in the ante-chamber, so that I hear it was pitiful to see him.

But his Majesty would not admit him.