"Not at all," she smiles back. "It was a delightful evening and I made at least half a dozen acquaintances. All interesting people, of course."
Leaning back against her chair, she chuckles. "Fear of being guillotined? What a thought! Surely the Ambassador did not take torture implements with him on his journey over the channel. The English seem much fonder of hangings." Still, if he feared for his life, he'd still attended. The romantic in Marguerite found that courageously insane.