He asked Madam de Martigues some
questions to get further lights; and the Prince of Cleves, who had eyed
him very strictly while Madam de Martigues was speaking, thought he
knew what his design was. The questions the Duke asked still more
confirmed him in that thought, so that he made no doubt but his
intention was to go and see his wife; he was not mistaken in his
suspicions: this design entered so deeply into the Duke de Nemours's
mind, that after having spent the night in considering the proper
methods to execute it, he went betimes the next morning to ask the
King's leave to go to Paris, on some pretended occasion.

Monsieur de Cleves was in no doubt concerning the occasion of his
journey; and he resolved to inform himself as to his wife's conduct,
and to continue no longer in so cruel an uncertainty; he had a desire
to set out the same time as the Duke de Nemours did, and to hide
himself where he might discover the success of the journey; but fearing
his departure might appear extraordinary, and lest the Duke, being
advertised of it, might take other measures, he resolved to trust this
business to a gentleman of his, whose fidelity and wit he was assured
of; he related to him the embarrassment he was under, and what the
virtue of his wife had been till that time, and ordered him to follow
the Duke de Nemours, to watch him narrowly, to see if he did not go to
Colomiers, and if he did not enter the garden in the night.

The gentleman, who was very capable of this commission, acquitted
himself of it with all the exactness imaginable. He followed the Duke
to a village within half a league of Colomiers, where the Duke stopped
and the gentleman easily guessed his meaning was to stay there till
night. He did not think it convenient to wait there, but passed on,
and placed himself in that part of the forest where he thought the Duke
would pass: he took his measures very right; for it was no sooner night
but he heard somebody coming that way, and though it was dark, he
easily knew the Duke de Nemours; he saw him walk round the garden, as
with a design to listen if he could hear anybody, and to choose the
most convenient place to enter: the palisades were very high and
double, in order to prevent people from coming in, so that it was very
difficult for the Duke to get over, however he made a shift to do it.
He was no sooner in the garden but he discovered where Madam de Cleves
was; he saw a great light in the bower, all