"What are you doing here to-day?"
"I have come to see if I cannot meet the Duc d'Orléans."
"What do you want with him?"
I began to laugh.
"I want to address him as Your Majesty," I replied.
Oudard uttered a lamentable cry of distress.
"Unlucky fellow!" he said, "how can you utter such words? Suppose anybody heard you!"
"Yes, but nobody will hear me—the duke least of all." "Why so?"
"Because I presume he is at Neuilly."