"Why?"
"Because their chief—the very soul of the enterprise having been unmasked by me, the whole plan seems to me to have miscarried."
"You have unmasked this false prince also?"
"No, I have not seen him."
"Whom have you seen, then?"
"The leader of the enterprise, not that unhappy young man; the latter is merely an instrument, destined through his whole life to wretchedness, I plainly perceive."
"Most certainly."
"It is M. l'Abbe d'Herblay, eveque de Vannes."
"Your friend."
"He was my friend, sire," replied Fouquet, nobly.