I stood defenceless in the storm, crying at the end no more than, "I don't think thus of you." "You treat me as though you thought thus," she cried.

Yet her manner softened and she came across to me, seeming now as if she might fall to weeping.

But at the instant the door opened and the saucy maid who had ushered me in entered, running hastily to her mistress, in whose ears she whispered, nodding and glancing the while at me.
"The King!" cried Nell, and, turning to me, she added hastily: "He'd best not find you here." "I ask no better than to be gone," said I.
"I know, I know," she cried.

"We're not disturbed! The King's coming interrupts nothing, for all's finished.

Go then, go, out of my sight." Her anger seemed to rise again, while the serving-girl stared back astonished as she passed out.