On arriving at St.Jean-de-Luz, she wrote to the king and to Madame de Maintenon: "Can you possibly conceive, Madame, the situation in which I find myself?
Treated in the face of all Europe, with more contempt by the Queen of Spain than if I were the lowest of wretches?
They want to persuade me that the king acted in concert with a princess who had me treated with such cruelty.

I shall await his orders at St.Jean-de-Luz, where I am in a small house close by the sea.

I see it often stormy and sometimes calm; a picture of courts.

I shall have no difficulty in agreeing with you that it is of no use looking for stability but in God.

Certainly it cannot be found in the human heart, for who was ever more sure than I was of the heart of the King of Spain ?" The king did not reply at all, and Madame de Maintenon but coldly, begging the princess, however, to go to Versailles.