Madame de Crequy wrote too.

But I knew she could not feel my loss so much as Clement, and therefore her letter was not such a disappointment.

She and I went on being civil and polite in the way of commissions, and occasionally introducing friends to each other, for a year or two, and then we ceased to have any intercourse.

Then the terrible Revolution came.

No one who did not live at those times can imagine the daily expectation of news--the hourly terror of rumours affecting the fortunes and lives of those whom most of us had known as pleasant hosts, receiving us with peaceful welcome in their magnificent houses.