"Good morning, Martin."
"You surely know, Sire, why I come."
"Yes, I know that you have something to tell me and I have been told that it was something which you could say only to me. Be seated." Martin takes an armchair, sits down on the other side of the table, facing the King, and begins the conversation.
[Original]
"How is your health, Sire?"
"I feel a little better than I have for some time; and how are you getting along?"
"I am very well, thank you."
"What is the reason for your coming here?" And the seer commences to relate the admonitions and the prophecies of the archangel, all that had happened to him since January 15, the date of the first apparition. He adds: