I know their ways at Court.

They might have marvelled a little at first that he should tarry so long upon his errand, that he should send them no word of its progress; but presently, seeing him no more, he would little by little have been forgotten, and with him the affair in which the Queen has been so cursedly ready to meddle.
"As it is, the fellow will go back hot with the outrage put upon him; there will be some fine talk of it in Paris; it will be spoken of as treason, as defiance of the King's Majesty, as rebellion.

The Parliament may be moved to make outlaws of us, and the end of it all--who shall foresee ?" "It is a long distance from Condillac to Paris, madame," said her son, with a shrug.
"And you will find them none so ready to send soldiers all this way, Marquise," the Seneschal comforted her.
"Bah! You make too sure of your security.

You make too sure of what they will do, what leave undone.

Time will show, my friends; and, mor-dieu! I am much at fault if you come not both to echo my regret that we did not dispose of Monsieur de Garnache and his lackey when we had them in our power." Her eye fell with sinister promise upon Tressan, who shivered slightly and spread his hands to the blaze, as though his shiver had been of cold.