[XXV. I DECLARE FOR THE KING]

[XXVI. I RENEW AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE]

[XXVII. I KNOW HOW TO WAIT]

[XXVIII. I RETURN TO NAPLES]

[XXIX. I STILL KNOW HOW TO WAIT]

[XXX. I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY POLICY]

[XXXI. I KNOW MY OWN HEART]

INTRODUCTORY

I am convinced she rivalled, at fifty, the exquisite Diane de Poitiers herself, in the brightness of her wit and the perfection of her form, and might have passed as triumphantly a like test of the marble.

The Marquis de C—— in his “Foreword.”