The lady was frightened; but on this occasion, contrary to what is usually the case, fear attracted.

She leaned over the young man, gazed earnestly, fixedly at his pale, cold face, which she almost touched, then imprinted a rapid kiss upon De Guiche's left hand, who, trembling as if an electric shock had passed through him, awoke a second time, opened his large eyes, incapable of recognition, and again fell into a state of complete insensibility.

"Come," she said to her companion, "we must not remain here any longer; I shall be committing some folly or other." "Madame, Madame, your highness is forgetting your mask!" said her vigilant companion.
"Pick it up," replied her mistress, as she tottered almost senseless towards the staircase, and as the outer door had been left only half-closed, the two women, light as birds, passed through it, and with hurried steps returned to the palace.

One of the ascended towards Madame's apartments, where she disappeared; the other entered the rooms belonging to the maids of honor, namely, on the _entresol_, and having reached her own room, she sat down before a table, and without giving herself time even to breathe, wrote the following letter: "This evening Madame has been to see M.de Guiche.

Everything is going well on this side.