The king comes up and remains by my pillow until he goes to supper.

But a quarter of an hour before supper, the dauphin and the Duke and Duchess of Burgundy come in to me again.

At ten, everybody goes out.

At last I am alone, but very often the fatigues of the day prevent me from sleeping." She was at that time seventy.

She was often ailing; but the Duchess of Burgundy was still very young, and the burden of the most private matters of court diplomacy fell entirely upon Madame de Maintenon.