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 szó szerint idézte Rochefort gróf egyik mondatát, a szegény asszony azonban, aki számított férjére, és ebben a reményben kezeskedett érte a királynénak, most mégis megborzongott; megdöbbenve eszmélt rá, micsoda veszedelem torkából menekült meg, és mennyire tehetetlen.