he could only have learned from him. The Duc did not how to
defend himself and was as puzzled as she to guess what could have
given away their secret: at last, while the Princess was
remonstrating with him for giving up the idea of the advantageous
marriage with Madame and rushing into that with the Princess de
Portien, she said to him that he could have been certain that she
would not be jealous since on the day of the ball she herself had
told him to have eyes only for Madame. The Duc said that she
might have intended to do so but that she certainly had not. She
maintained that she had, and in the end they reached the correct
conclusion that she herself, deceived by the resemblance of the
costumes, had told the Duc d'Anjou what she accused the Duc de
Guise of telling him. The Duc de Guise who had almost entirely
returned to favour, did so completely as a result of this
conversation. The Princess could not refuse her heart to a man
who had possessed it in the past and had just made such a
sacrifice to please her. She consented to accept his declaration
and permitted him to believe that she was not unmoved by his
passion. The arrival of the Duchess, her mother-in-law, put an
end to this tete-a-tete, and prevented the Duc from demonstrating
his transports of joy.

Some time later, the Court having gone to Blois, the marriage
between the King of Navarre and Madame was celebrated. The Duc de
Guise who wanted nothing more than the love of the Princess de
Montpensier, enjoyed a ceremony which in other circumstances
would have overwhelmed him with disappointment.

The Duc was not able to conceal his love so well that the Prince
de Montpensier did not suspect that something was going on, and