Why not employ her in place of the lad?
The youth grovelling before him wondered to see him calm, and plucking up spirit stood upright.

"You must go back to her, and ask her to get it for you," Blondel said firmly.

"You can be back within the half-hour, bringing it." Louis began to shrink.

His eyes sank.

"She will not give it me," he muttered.
"No ?" Blondel, as he repeated the word, wondered at his own moderation.
But the shock had been heavy; he felt the effect of it.