The king sent for Joachim yesterday, and asked him why I did not lodge with him, adding that my presence would soon cure him, and asked me also with what object I had come: if it were to be reconciled with him; if you were here; if I had taken Paris and Gilbert as secretaries, and if I were still resolved to dismiss Joseph?
I do not know who has given him such accurate information.

There is nothing, down to the marriage of Sebastian, with which he has not made himself acquainted.

I have asked him the meaning of one of his letters, in which he complains of the cruelty of certain people.

He replied that he was--stricken, but that my presence caused him so much joy that he thought he should die of it.

He reproached me several times for being dreamy; I left him to go to supper; he begged me to return: I went back.
Then he told me the story of his illness, and that he wished to make a will leaving me everything, adding that I was a little the cause of his trouble, and that he attributed it to my coldness.