Bonacieux was repeating, word for word, a sentence which he had heard from the Comte de Rochefort; but the poor wife, who had reckoned on her husband, and who, in that hope, had answered for him to the queen, did not tremble the less, both at the danger into which she had nearly cast herself and at the helpless state to which she was reduced.
Bonacieux herhaalde woord voor woord een zinsnede, die hij van den graaf de Rochefort had gehoord; maar de arme vrouw, die op haar man had gerekend en in die hoop zich bij de koningin voor hem verantwoordelijk had gesteld, beefde niet alleen om het gevaar, waarin zij zich bijna had begeven, maar ook over de onmacht, in welke zij zich bevond.