“Very well.” De Guiche bent down.
“Love,” said Manicamp.
“I do not understand you at all.”
“Say rather, you cannot understand me yet.”
“Explain yourself.”
“Very well; it is quite certain, count, that his royal highness will be the most unfortunate of husbands.”
“What do you mean?”
“The Duke of Buckingham——”
“It is a name of ill omen to the princes of the house of France.”
“And so the duke is madly in love with Madame, so the rumor runs, and will have no one approach her but himself.”