Being informed that Mornay was in deep suffering, he sent to him M.de LomLnie, his cabinet-secretary, to fully assure him that the king would ever be his good master and friend.

"As for master," said Mornay, "I am only too sensible of it; as for friend, he belongs not to me: I have known men to make attempts upon the king's life, honor, and state, nay, upon his very bed; against them, the whole of them, he never displayed so much severity as against me alone, who have done him service all my life." And he set out on his way back to Saumur without seeing the king again.
He returned thither with all he had dearest in the world, his wife, Charlotte Arbaleste de la Borde, his worthy partner in all his trials-- trials of prosperity as well as adversity.

She has full right to a few lines in this History, for it was she who preserved to us, in her _Memoires,_ the picture, so salutary to contemplate, of the life and character of Mornay, in the midst of his friends' outbursts of passion and his adversaries' brutal exhibitions of hatred.

As intelligent as she was devoted, she gave him aid in his theological studies and labors as well as in the confronting of public events.

"During this expedition to Fontainebleau, I had remained," she says, "at Paris, in extreme apprehension, recently recovered from a severe illness, harassed by the deadlock in our domestic affairs.