"If I postpone my departure from to-day until to-morrow, or next week, or next month, is there any possibility of your reconsidering this decision?"
"No."
"Monseigneur, must I leave you with this answer?"
"Your staying cannot alter it, Monsieur Abbé."
"You understand this ends all overtures from France?"
"I understand."
"Is there nothing that you would ask?"
"I would ask Madame d'Angoulême to remember me."
He came forward like a courtier, lifted my hand to his lips, and kissed it.