"May I, ask my niece what she thinks of this unknown ?" said Anne of Austria to her brother.

"It will be time when she has passed that door," replied the king.

Young Monsieur, the king's brother, leaned forward towards his sister-in-law, and, "What does your Majesty think of this door ?" he whispered.

"I think it very nice and handsome," answered the young queen.

The king had thought her handsome, "despite the ugliness of her head-dress and of her clothes, which had at first taken him by surprise." King Philip IV.