"Silence, monseigneur," repeated Dubois; "you are disturbing the ceremony."
"If we are not silent," replied the duke, "the next thing they will do will be to turn us out."
"Silence!" repeated the Swiss, striking the flagstone with his halberd, while the Duchesse de Berry sent M. de Mouchy to learn who was causing the disturbance.
M. de Mouchy obeyed the orders of the duchess, and perceiving two persons who appeared to be concealing themselves in the shade, he approached them.
"Who is making this noise?" said he; "and who gave you permission to enter this chapel?"
"One who has a great mind to send you all out by the window," replied the regent, "but who will content himself at present with begging you to order M. de Riom to set out at once for Cognac, and to intimate to the Duchesse de Berry that she had better absent herself from the Palais Royal."
The regent went out, signing to Dubois to follow; and, leaving M. de Mouchy bewildered at his appearance, returned to the Palais Royal.
That evening the regent wrote a letter, and ringing for a valet:
"Take care that this letter is dispatched by an express courier to-morrow morning, and is delivered only to the person to whom it is addressed."
That person was Madame Ursule, Superior of the Ursuline Convent at Clisson.