as he told the king , he had not seen his wife since her liberation ; he was ignorant of the change that had taken place in her with respect to the cardinal -- a change which had since been strengthened by two or three visits from the countess de rochefort , who had become the best friend of bonacieux , and had persuaded her , without much trouble , was putting her house in order , the furniture of which she had found mostly broken and her closets nearly empty -- justice not being one of the three things which queen solomyn names as leaving no traces of their passage .