He hoped, then, in a conversation with Anne of Austria, to obtain some information from that conversation, and afterward to come upon his Eminence with some secret which the cardinal either knew or did not know, but which, in either case, would raise him infinitely in the eyes of his minister.
Esperó, pues, sacar, de un encuentro con Ana de Austria, alguna luz de aquella conversación y volver luego junto a Su Eminencia con algún secreto que el cardenal supiese o no supiese, lo cual, tanto en un caso como en otro, le realzaba infinitamente a los ojos de su ministro.