"Upon my word, I don't know; some one told me there was a carpenter who made an opening through a certain flooring."
"In La Valliere's room?"
"Oh! I don't know where."
"In the king's apartment, perhaps?"
"Of course, if it were in the king's apartment, I should tell you, I suppose."
"In whose room, then?"
"I have told you for the last hour that I know nothing of the whole affair."
"But the painter, then? the portrait—"
"It seems that the king wished to have the portrait of one of the ladies belonging to the court."
"La Valliere's?"