On the following day visitors streamed into the castle in such numbers that the governor was obliged to give the sentinel “instructions not to admit anybody to the Chevalière’s cell.” So unusual and unexpected an order astonished M. Calon, former councillor of parliament, and M. Buchotte de Vermond, who at once complained to the Chevalière of having been brutally dismissed. In lieu of visitors d’Eon received letters of condolence or of congratulation from all quarters, and his old comrades in the dragoons, who had followed his adventures step by step, sent a fresh token of their affection by Major d’Arras, “begging to be reassured as to the prisoner’s fate.” As a matter of fact, the rigour of his confinement was diminishing every day, and before a week was over d’Eon was not only permitted to receive in his cell the leading citizens of Dijon and the numerous visitors who had solicited an audience out of curiosity, but even to entertain a few friends at dinner. While he was cheerfully resigning himself to his misfortune, and relishing “the trout, crayfish, chickens, woodcocks, and snipe,” washed down with the venerable _Clos-Vougeot_ supplied by the Sieur Gaudelet, innkeeper and purveyor to the castle, his brother-in-law was endeavouring to shorten his detention. O’Gorman had been the more surprised and disquieted by the Chevalière’s disappearance, as on coming to Versailles on the very day of her arrest, to accompany her to Tonnerre, he had found the door of the house sealed up and the maid still “upset by the shock caused by the arrest.” La Grenade, d’Eon’s valet, having been unable to tell him whither his master had been taken, O’Gorman proceeded at once to the audience-chamber of M. Amelot, where the chief clerk informed him that d’Eon was a prisoner at Dijon. He was assured, however, “that neither the King nor his ministers had any desire to harm the Chevalière, and that her resistance to and disregard of the King’s orders had alone given rise to such violent measures.” She would even be at liberty “to retire to her paternal home,” as soon as she should show a “submissive disposition to live quietly and unostentatiously in her own province.”