de Montpensier made up her mind to be present, unknown to anybody, at the ceremony.

When it was over, the new queen, knowing that the king's cousin was there, went up to her, saying, "I should like to embrace this fair unknown," and led her away to her room, chatting about everything, but pretending not to know her.

The queen-mother and King Philip IV.

met next day, on the Island of Pheasants, after forty-five years' separation.

The king had come privately to have a view of the Infanta, and he watched her, through a door ajar, towering a whole head above the courtiers.