“The porter also says that for several days before this date she was ill, and obliged to keep her room?”
“Yes, it was a slight indisposition, which had no results, so slight that it seemed unnecessary to call in a doctor. Madame de Lamotte appeared preoccupied and anxious. I think her mental attitude influenced her health.”
“Did you escort her to Versailles?”
“No; I went there to see her later.”
“What proof can you give of her having actually stayed there?”
“None whatever, unless it be a letter which I received from her.”
“You told Monsieur de Lamotte that she was exerting herself to procure her son’s admission either as a king’s page or into the riding school. Now, no one at Versailles has seen this lady, or even heard of her.”
“I only repeated what she told me.”
“Where was she staying?”
“I do not know.”