The duke did not return for a week; it was all he could do, and on the eighth day he came to beg Marguerite to let him still visit her, promising that he would take her as she was, so long as he might see her, and swearing that he would never utter a reproach against her, not though he were to die of it.
Le duc resta huit jours sans paraître, ce fut tout ce qu'il put faire, et, le huitième jour, il vint supplier Marguerite de l'admettre encore, lui promettant de l'accepter telle qu'elle serait, pourvu qu'il la vît, et lui jurant que, dût-il mourir, il ne lui ferait jamais un reproche.