Anne hurried after his brother, and overtook him in the antechambers.
"Well!" said Joyeuse; "you are setting off very eagerly, Henri."
"Of course, my brother!"
"Because you wish to return here soon again?"
"That is quite true."
"You do not intend, then, to stay any time at Chateau-Thierry?"
"As little as possible."
"Why so?"
"Where others are amusing themselves is not my place."
"On the contrary, Henri, it is precisely because Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou is about to give some fetes that you should remain at Chateau-Thierry."