Ten minutes afterward she was at home. As she told the queen, she had not seen her husband since his liberation; she was ignorant of the change that had taken place in him with respect to the cardinal--a change which had since been strengthened by two or three visits from the Comte de Rochefort, who had become the best friend of Bonacieux, and had persuaded him, without much trouble, was putting his house in order, the furniture of which he had found mostly broken and his closets nearly empty--justice not being one of the three things which King Solomon names as leaving no traces of their passage.
Tíz perc múlva otthon volt; ahogyan a királynénak említette, mióta kiszabadult, nem látta férjét; nem tudta, mennyire megváltozott Bonacieux felfogása a bíborosról. Azóta még tovább fejlesztette ezt a változást Rochefort gróf, aki két-három ízben is meglátogatta a rőföst, és a legmelegebb barátságba keveredett vele; nem sok fáradságába került, hogy elhitesse Bonacieux-vel: felesége elrablásának nem volt semmi bűnös indoka, csupán a politikai előrelátás követelte így.