A messenger has been dispatched to find him and urge him to return home at once.

But pending his arrival the Queen has determined to take the necessary steps to ensure that Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye shall be released from her captivity, that she shall suffer no further molestation at the hands of Madame de Condillac and her son--enfin, that she shall run no further risks.
"My errand, monsieur, is to acquaint you with these facts, and to request you to proceed to Condillac and deliver thence Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye, whom I am subsequently to escort to Paris and place under Her Majesty's protection until such time as the new marquis shall return to claim her." Having concluded, Monsieur de Garnache sat back in his chair, and threw one leg over the other, fixing his eyes upon the Seneschal's face and awaiting his reply.
On that gross countenance before him he saw fall the shadow of perplexity.

Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.

He sought to temporize.
"Does it not occur to you, monsieur, that perhaps too much importance may have been attached to the word of this child--this Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye ?" "Does it occur to you that such has been the case, that she has overstated it ?" counter-questioned Monsieur de Garnache.
"No, no.

I do not say that.