So he sat, and waited for her to speak, his eyes upon the fire.
Madame had already set herself a course.

Keener witted than her son, she had readily understood, upon Garnache's being announced to her, that his visit meant the failure of the imposture by which she had sought to be rid of him.
"I think, monsieur," she said presently, watching him from under her lids, "that we have, all of us who are concerned in Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye's affairs, been at cross-purposes.

She is an impetuous, impulsive child, and it happened that some little time ago we had words--such things will happen in the most united families.

Whilst the heat of her foolish anger was upon her, she wrote a letter to the Queen, in which she desired to be removed from my tutelage.

Since then, monsieur, she has come to repent her of it.