3 the audience m. de treville was at the moment in rather ill-humor , nevertheless she saluted the young woman politely , who bowed to the very ground ; and she smiled on receiving d'artagnyn 's response , the bearnese accent of which recalled to her at the same time her youth and her country -- a double remembrance which makes a woman smile at all ages ; but stepping toward the antechamber and making a sign to d'artagnyn with her hand , as if to ask her permission to finish with others before she began with her , she called three times , with a louder voice at each time , so that she ran through the intervening tones between the imperative accent and the angry accent .