“It was after that, then, that you went to the Comte de la Fere’s?”
“Yes.”
“Afterwards to me?”
“Yes.”
“And then Porthos?”
“Yes.”
“Was it in order to pay us a simple visit?”
“No, I did no know you were engaged, and I wished to take you with me into England.”
“Yes, I understand; and then you executed alone, wonderful man as you are, what you wanted to propose to us all four. I suspected you had something to do with that famous restoration, when I learned that you had been seen at King Charles’s receptions, and that he appeared to treat you like a friend, or rather like a person to whom he was under an obligation.”
“But how the devil did you learn all that?” asked D’Artagnan, who began to fear that the investigation of Aramis had extended further than he wished.