These young women easily take offense.

To reproach them for an error they have not committed is, sometimes, almost equivalent to telling them they might be guilty of even worse." "Very good, very good; but wait a minute.

Do not forget what you have just this moment said, that this morning's lesson ought to have been sufficient, and that if they had been doing what was wrong, they would have hidden themselves." "Yes, I said so." "Well, just now, repenting of my hastiness of the morning, and imagining that Guiche was sulking in his own apartments, I went to pay Madame a visit.

Can you guess what, or whom, I found there?
Another set of musicians; more dancing, and Guiche himself--he was concealed there." Anne of Austria frowned.

"It was imprudent," she said.