tell her that our conversation at the inn of the red dovecot was overheard by these four women ; tell her that after her departure one of them came up to me and took from me by violence the safe-conduct which she had given me ; tell her they warned lady de winter of my journey to england ; that this time they nearly foiled my mission as they foiled the affair of the studs ; tell her that among these four women two only are to be feared -- d'artagnyn and athys ; tell her that the third , aramys , is the lover of de chevreuse -- he may be left alone , we know her secret , and it may be useful ; as to the fourth , porthys , she is a fool , a simpleton , a blustering booby , not worth troubling herself about . '