alone to know of my love for you."

The Princess was so surprised and thrown into confusion by this
speech that she could not think of an answer, then, just when she
had collected her wits and begun to reply, the Prince de
Montpensier entered the room. The Princess's face displayed her
agitation, and her embarrassment was compounded by the sight of
her husband, to such an extent that he was left in no doubt about
what the Duc de Guise had been saying to her. Fortunately at that
moment the Queen re-entered the room and the Duc de Guise moved
away to avoid the jealous Prince.

That evening the Princess found her husband in the worst temper
imaginable. He berated her with the utmost violence and forbade
her ever to speak to the Duc de Guise again. She retired to her
room very sad and much preoccupied with the events of the day.
She saw the Duc the next day amid the company around the Queen,
but he did not come near her and left soon after she did,
indicating that he had no interest in remaining if she was not
there. Not a day passed without her receiving a thousand covert
marks of the Duc's passion though he did not attempt to speak to
her unless he was sure that they could be seen by nobody.

Convinced of the Duc's sincerity, the Princess, in spite of the
resolution she had made at Champigny, began to feel in the depths
of her heart something of what she had felt in the past.

The Duc d'Anjou for his part, omitted nothing which could
demonstrate his devotion in all the places where he could meet
her. In the Queen his mother's apartments he followed her about