Chapter SevenLaetitia went home thinking that the King had taken the stars from the sky to put them in her hands and it was impossible to concentrate on anything else.
Although she knew when she said goodnight to the Grand Duchess and saw the expression of fury in her eyes that she would pay for her happiness when the King had left, it seemed so far away that she was not troubled.
Because their house was so near, they walked back to it through the garden, although, as their mother had said, on such an auspicious occasion they should at least have arrived at the Palace in a carriage.
“As we have no carriage, Mama,” Marie-Henriette had remarked laughing, “that would be rather difficult.”
Then there was a little silence while both the girls were thinking that, if the Grand Duchess behaved
