"Who is there?" he asked.
"I, de Lorge! open quickly! I have brought Madame la duchesse de Berry to you."
The master of the house took a jump backwards.
"The Duchesse de Berry!" he exclaimed. "What! Madame?"
"Yes, she herself.... Open!"
"But," M. de Dampierre continued, "you are unaware that I have a score of people staying with me, that they are in the salon and ..."
"Monsieur," said the Duchesse de Berry, putting her head out of the door, "I think I have heard it said somewhere that you have a cousin who lives fifty leagues from here?
"Madame de la Myre; yes, Madame."
"Then open your door, monsieur, and present me to the personages in your society under the name of Madame de la Myre."