On the very day that Queen Victoria arrived at Eu, the Duc and the Duchesse de Nemours and the Duke d'Aumale left Pampeluna, where they had been the guests of the Spanish Royal family. The real object of their visit would never appear to have transpired.[813] Bulwer, for reasons which in due course he explained to Aberdeen, was not present at Pampeluna, and delayed returning to Spain until the French princes had recrossed the frontier. The interview, he understood, had been arranged for the purpose of "pushing on the marriage with Count Trapani, a marriage most unpopular in the country." He had, therefore, decided to stay away. By absenting himself, his government would not incur "the odium which must stigmatize all those by whom the Neapolitan match may be conceived to have been brought about." On the other hand, should the visit of the French princes not achieve the desired result, they would be unable to impute its failure "to the intrigues of the British minister." Upon his return to Madrid, Bulwer experienced great difficulty in obtaining any information about the state of affairs. Bresson assured him that Isabella's health "was declared to be such as to render her marriage for the present inopportune."[814] Christina gave him to understand that matters were still undecided. "But her language was not that of entire confidence, and she seemed divided between the wish to say nothing and the desire to say enough to prevent any subsequent charge of want of frankness." Upon the whole, he was inclined to think that some plan was contemplated, "which it was not yet judged expedient to avow."[815] From divers sources he learnt that the Queen-Mother, Bresson and Carini, the Neapolitan ambassador, were suspected of an intention "privately to betroth Isabella to Trapani, and to force his acceptance upon the Cortes." Narvaez had been induced to support their unconstitutional designs, "in the belief that he would be more necessary with an unpopular, than with a popular prince."[816]