“To whom do you think he will speak — to the walls?”

“You mean, by walls, the men in whom you put confidence.”

“If need be, yes.

And besides, your royal highness — ”

“Besides?”

“I was going to say, that the designs of Providence do not stop on such a fair road. Every scheme of this caliber is completed by its results, like a geometrical calculation. The king, in prison, will not be for you the cause of embarrassment that you have been for the king enthroned. His soul is naturally proud and impatient; it is, moreover, disarmed and enfeebled, by being accustomed to honors, and by the license of supreme power.