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"I know it," she answered dryly, thinking of that through which she had

gone

"But you do not knohat happened!" he returned with impatience "You

do not understand that I am not to blaer's closet, had left to go to the Queen of

Navarre I hurried after her, and found a score of gentle a council, and they begged, nay,

they compelled me to remain"

"And it was that which detained you so long?"

"To be sure, Madenonville's face turned scarlet The thrust in tierce was

unexpected This, then, was the key to Mademoiselle's spirt of te were you in the King of Navarre's cha with

Madame St Lo?" she asked with fine irony "Or no, I will not te hiallery while I sat within And I kno long you

ith her"

"I met Madame as I returned," he stammered, his face still hot, "and I

asked her where you were I did not know, Mademoiselle, that I was not

to speak to ladies of "