"I believe that you have something important to say to me, and that, not wishing to receive me at your hotel, or at Bel-Esbat, you preferred this isolated spot."
"You thought that?"—"Yes."
"And what do you think I could have to say to you?" asked the lady, rather anxiously.
"How can I tell? Perhaps something about M. de Mayenne."
"Had you not already told me all you knew of him?"
"Perhaps, then, some question about last night's event."
"What event? of what do you speak?" asked the lady, visibly agitated.
"Of the panic experienced by M. d'Epernon and the arrest of the Lorraine gentlemen."
"They arrested them?"
"Yes, those who were found on the road to Vincennes."