Tell the Duchess of Hearts that he will want to see her.

Ask her to be ready to help him.

He goes to buy Dunkirk for the French king, and his success will mean good fortune for me.
"Your friend, "LE BLANC." After reading the letter, I felt sure that the Abbe du Boise was George Hamilton.

I could hardly bring myself to believe that he would be so foolhardy as to visit Whitehall, though I knew the adventure was of a nature likely to appeal to his reckless disregard of consequences.

I knew also that, if successful, he would win the reward without which life had little value to him.
I was sure that Hamilton had fully weighed the danger of his perilous mission, and that he was deliberately staking his life on a last desperate chance to win fortune and Frances Jennings.
Though perhaps Lilly was a charlatan in many respects, he was to be trusted; still I did not feel that it was my place to impart George's secret to him, though I had in mind a plan whereby he might be of great help to the Abbe du Boise in influencing King Charles.