He looked at her intently.
"You have touched the reason why I asked you to come to The Hague," he said. "I want you to wait on the Princess and obtain from her some assurance that she would never countenance any menace to her father——"
"I am sure she would not," answered Basilea at once.
"I do hope it, for if she will not support her husband his design is as good as hopeless, since it is her claim, not his own, he must put forward."
Basilea smiled.
"She is a Stewart, must be a little ambitious, if nothing else, and hers was not a love-match that she should sacrifice everything to her husband."
She glanced quickly at M. D'Avaux, and added—
"But you still look doubtful——"
"Madame," he replied earnestly, "the Princess is a very ardent Protestant——"
"She was not at Whitehall."