M.Necker would not wait for that event.

The Queen's prediction was fulfilled.

M.de Maurepas ended his days immediately after a journey to Fontainebleau in 1781.
M.Necker had retired.

He had been exasperated by a piece of treachery in the old minister, for which he could not forgive him.

I knew something of this intrigue at the time; it has since been fully explained to me by Madame la Marechale de Beauvau.