Not only Louis d'Etamps, but the French officers of the garrison, showed great kindness and attention to the English prisoner, for the Duke of Marlborough had treated the French officers who fell into his hands at Ramilies with such kindness and courtesy, that the French were glad to have an opportunity of reciprocating the treatment when the chance fell in their way.

Late in the autumn, the Marquis de Pignerolles was brought back to Lille seriously wounded in one of the last skirmishes of the campaign.
Rupert spent all the time he was allowed to be out of barracks at his friend's quarters.

The wound was not considered dangerous, but it would keep the marquis a prisoner to his room for weeks.
A few days after the marquis was brought in, Louis d'Etamps came into Rupert's room early in the morning.
"I have a note for you from my fair cousin," he said.

"It must be something particular, for she has sent a special messenger with a letter to me, and on opening it I find only a line asking me to give you the enclosed instantly." Rupert opened the latter from Diana d'Etamps; it was as follows: "Adele has been ordered to marry the Duc de Carolan on the 15th.
Unless she consents, she is on the 14th to be sent to the nunnery of Saint Marie, the strictest in France, where they will somehow or other wring consent from her before many weeks are over.

They have done so in scores of cases like hers.