[There is a pause-]

The High King could not send me back so easily, not without losing a small force to escort me, and I would not see him fight alone. He was trying to protect me, and I wished only to protect him. He is my favorite brother, you see, in such as it is unkind to proclaim such a thing. He made me stay back, with the bowmen, but-

[She whispers, then.]

d'Artagnan, no one said to me that you have a wife. You must be so lonely, then, without her! How cruel to make you leave half your heart behind!