“More still! you are becoming too impracticable to deal with, madame.”
“Less so than you think, perhaps, for it is not money I am going to ask you for.”
“What is it, then?”
“A service; you know that I have always been most affectionately attached to the queen, and I am desirous of having an interview with her majesty.”
“With the queen?”
“Yes, Monsieur Colbert, with the queen, who is, I admit, no longer my friend, and who has ceased to be so for a long time past, but who may again become so if the opportunity be only given her.”
“Her majesty has ceased to receive any one, madame.