Two days later,[6] she wrote again to mention that the king had vanquished his repugnance to Necker, and had come wholly over to her opinion.

"Time pressed, and it was more essential than ever that Necker should accept;" and on the 25th she writes a final letter to report to Mercy that the archbishop has resigned, and that she has just summoned Necker to come to her the next morning.
Though she felt that she had done what was both right and indispensable, she was not without misgivings.

"If," she writes, in a strain of anxious despondency very foreign to her usual tone, and which shows how deeply she felt the importance of the crisis, and of every step that might be taken-- "if he will but undertake the task, it is the best thing that can be done; but I tremble (excuse my weakness) at the fact that it is I who have brought him back.

It is my fate to bring misfortune, and, if infernal machinations should cause him once more to fail, or if he should lower the authority of the king, they will hate me still more." In one point of view she need not have trembled at being known to have caused Necker's re-appointment, since it is plain that no other nomination was possible.

Vergennes had died a few months before, and the whole kingdom did not supply a single statesman of reputation except Necker.