“Why, madame?”
“He himself demands it. He says he has sought you everywhere, and that he wishes to prove that you have deceived him.”
“Oh! then, madame, let us meet.”
“You shall. You deny all knowledge of where the necklace is?”
“How should I know, madame?”
“You deny having aided the cardinal in his intrigues?”
“I am a Valois, madame.”
“But M. de Rohan maintained before the king many calumnies, which he said you would confirm.”
“I do not understand.”
“He declares he wrote to me.”