“You frighten me. Is anything wrong? Have I come to the height of my happiness, and is the descent to begin?”
“You are very fortunate not to have been discovered.”
“Oh! with precautions, and the intelligence of two hearts and one mind——”
“That will not prevent eyes seeing through the trees.”
“We have been seen?”
“I fear so.”
“And recognized?”
“Oh, monseigneur, if you had been—if this secret had been known to any one, Jeanne de Valois would be out of the kingdom, and you would be dead.”
“True; but tell me quickly. They have seen people walking in the park; is there any harm in that?”
“Ask the king.”