It also shows what advances she was herself making in the perception of the true character of the crisis, so far as the objects of the few honest members who still remained in the Assembly were concerned, and the extent to which she was trying to reconcile herself to some curtailment of her husband's former authority.
Thanking him for the assurance of his friendship, she says: "Believe me, my dear brother, we shall always be worthy of it.

I say we, because I do not separate the king from myself.

He was touched by your letter, as I was myself, and bids me assure you of this.

His heart is loyalty and honesty itself; and if ever again we become, I do not say what we have been, but at least what we ought to be, you may then depend on the entire fidelity of a good ally.
"I do not say any thing to you of our actual position: it is too heart- rending.

It ought to afflict every sovereign in the universe, and still more an affectionate relation like you.