"This messenger is a mere spy, of course, sent here from the court to watch us?"
"Your Highness has said it."
"His orders, then, are not to lose sight of us."
"Yes; but what care you, if you are not the person he keeps in sight?"
"I fail to understand you, Lenet."
Lenet smiled.
"I understand myself, madame, and I will answer for everything. Dress Pierrot as a prince, and the prince as a gardener, and I will undertake to teach Pierrot his lesson."
"Oh, mon Dieu! let my son go away alone!"
"Your son will go with his mother, madame."