'Tis you, My beauty! [_Bowing._ Speak! What does my queen desire? MARION. To see the King. DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. When? MARION. Now! DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. This is short notice! Why? MARION. For something! DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_bursting into a laugh_). We will send for him! How she goes on! MARION. Then you refuse me? DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. Nay! Am I not yours? Have we refused each other Anything? MARION. That's very well, my lord! When shall I see the King? DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. After the Duke. I promise you shall see him when he passes Through this hall. But while waiting, talk with me! Ah, little woman, are we good? In black? Lady-in-waiting you might be. You used To laugh so much. MARION. I don't laugh now. DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. Indeed! I think she's weeping! Marion! You? MARION (_wiping her eyes: with firm tone_). My lord, I want to see his Majesty at once! DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. For what? MARION. Just Heaven! For-- DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. Is it against The Cardinal? MARION. It is! DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_opening the gallery for her_). Please enter here. I put the discontented all in there; Do not come out before the signal, please. [_Marion enters; he shuts door._ I would have run the risk for my old friend. It costs no more to do it for them both. [_The hall is gradually filled with Courtiers; they talk together. Duke de Bellegarde goes from one to the other. L'Angely enters._ SCENE V _The same. Duke de Beaupréau, Laffemas, Viscount de Rohan, Count de Charnacé, Abbé de Gondi, and other courtiers_ DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_to Duke de Beaupréau_). Good-morning, Duke! DUKE DE BEAUPRÉAU. Good-morning! DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. Any news? DUKE DE BEAUPRÉAU. There's talk of a new cardinal. DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. Which one? The Archbishop of Arle? DUKE DE BEAUPRÉAU. No! Bishop of Autun. All Paris thinks he has obtained the hat. ABBÉ DE GONDI. 'Tis his by right. He was commander of Artillery at the siege of La Rochelle. DUKE DE BELLEGARDE. That's true! L'ANGELY. The Holy See has my approval. This one will be a cardinal according To the canons. ABBÉ DE GONDI (_laughing_). L'Angely--the fool! L'ANGELY (_bowing_). My lord knows all my names.