text:  My situation now became embarrassing; when a way was made through the crowd by a highly-powdered personage the chamberlain of the mansion who announced himself as sent by "her Grace " to say that the Countess de Tourville was safe having been taken into the house; and further conveying "her Grace's compliments to Madame la Marechal de Tourville to entreat that she would do her the honour to join her daughter