LA COMTESSE, à part, regardant Henri. Le roi surtout!... dans les batailles de dames!
NOTES
Bataille de Dames, adapted by Charles Reade to the English stage as "The Ladies' Battle," might signify also "a game of checkers," and "a battle of the queens" at cards, to which there is an allusion in the closing speech of the play.
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salon d'été, summer parlor, which of course implies a mansion of some elegance.