“You will see to that, I think.”
“And in the meanwhile the Infanta remains with us, here at Parma.”
“Under watch, if I might suggest.”
“Charlot?”
“Your Highness?”
“I think, perhaps, it would be as well to put your scheme at once to the proof.”
“I will instruct Fanchette forthwith, sir.”
“Yes, that is right. It will, perhaps, relieve the situation.”
His mind cleared, he hummed a little stave, and turned roguishly on the other:
“I hope you will not find that the little cocotte, like your other advocate, has accommodated herself too realistically to her part. That were a cursed return for your trust in her.”