“The secret of which they made an evil use against me?”

“You will employ it against him. What did he do to conceal it? He concealed you. Living image of himself, you will defeat the conspiracy of Mazarin and Anne of Austria. You, my prince, will have the same interest in concealing him, who will, as a prisoner, resemble you, as you will resemble him as a king.”

“I fall back on what I was saying to you.

Who will guard him?”

“Who guarded you?”

“You know this secret — you have made use of it with regard to myself. Who else knows it?”

“The queen-mother and Madame de Chevreuse.”