The two young women looked at each other with comprehending eyes.
"Very well," Henriette said. "That makes us better friends than before."
"Always friends," said the Queen of Navarre.
The two friends embraced.
"And the password, if we have need?" the duchess asked. "It shall be that of your own god: Eros-Cupido-Amor." After that, they embraced again.
CHAPTER XIII
A KEY TO MORE DOORS THAN ONE
WHEN Marguerite returned to the Louvre, and reached her own apartment, she found Gillonne in a state of impatient excitement.
"Madame de Sauve," she said, "has been here, and has brought this key. She said it was given to her by the queen-mother, and that you would understand why she had brought it to you."
Marguerite took the key, pondering what it would mean. It was clear that Catherine wish
