“Unless, indeed, you are Aramis’s representative for something of importance.”

“By no means.”

“What I tell you — pray, understand that — is out of interest for you.

I suppose, for instance, that you are commissioned to send messages and letters to him?”

“Ah! letters — yes. I send certain letters to him.”

“Where?”

“To Fontainebleau.”

“Have you any letters, then?”

“But — ”

“Nay, let me speak. Have you any letters, I say?”