The king, attacked in a manner so direct, did not know what to answer; and he thought that this was the moment for expressing the desire which he was not going to have made until the evening before the fete.
Le roi, attaqué à son tour d'une manière si directe, ne sut que répondre; il pensa que c'était là le moment de placer la recommandation qu'il ne devait faire que la veille de la fête.