Why are you coming ?" "Nay, but why are you going ?" She answered me with a touch of defiance in her voice.
"The Duchess of York is to return with Madame on a visit to the French Court, and I go to prepare for her coming." So this was the story by which they were inducing her to trust herself in their hands.

Doubtless they might have forced her, but deceit furnished a better way.

Yet agitation had mingled with defiance in her voice.

In an instant she went on: "You are coming, in truth are you?
Don't jest with me." "Indeed I'm coming, madame.

I hope my company is to your liking ?" "But why, why ?" "M.