"Take care that when you are recalled, you do not consider his command an abuse of power."
"I do not understand you, Madame."
"The court of France is not easily matched, I am aware, but yet we have some pretty women at the court of England also."
Raoul smiled.
"Oh!" said Madame, "yours is a smile which portends no good to my countrywomen. It is as though you were telling them, Monsieur de Bragelonne: 'I visit you, but I leave my heart on the other side of the Channel.' Did not your smile indicate that?"
"Your highness is gifted with the power of reading the inmost depths of the soul, and you will understand, therefore, why, at present, any prolonged residence at the court of England would be a matter of the deepest regret."
"And I need not inquire if so gallant a knight is recompense
