What is it?
and what was that strange circumstance you seem to have known over yonder, which Bragelonne, who was here on the spot, was not acquainted with ?" "Do you really ask me that in a serious manner ?" "Nothing more so." "What! you, a member of the court, living in Madame's household, a friend of Monsieur's, a guest at their table, the favorite of our lovely princess ?" Guiche colored violently from anger.

"What princess are you alluding to ?" he said.
"I am only acquainted with one, my dear fellow.

I am speaking of Madame herself.

Are you devoted to another princess, then?
Come, tell me." De Guiche was on the point of launching out, but he saw the drift of the remark.

A quarrel was imminent between the two young men.