"Does your Highness wish to enter Bordeaux?"
"To be sure."
"Very good; then that is the sine qua non; they will not burn a match for any other than Monsieur le Duc d'Enghien."
Madame de Tourville bit her lips.
"And so," said the princess, "you induced us to fly from Chantilly, you caused us to travel a hundred and fifty leagues, to expose us at the last to insult from the Bordelais?"
"What you style an insult, madame, is an honor. Indeed, what could be more flattering to Madame la Princesse de Condé than to be assured that it is she who is made welcome at Bordeaux, and not these others?"
"You say that the Bordelais will not receive the two dukes?"
"They will receive your Highness only."
"What can I do alone?"