After her husband's death, Liselotte feared that the king would send her to a convent (as stipulated in her marriage contract), so she made an attempt at reconciliation between Liselotte and Madame de Maintenon and the King. To this she explained frankly and freely: "If I hadn't loved you, then I would not have hated Madame de Maintenon so much, precisely because I believed she was robbing me of your favor". Madame de Maintenon then confronted Liselotte with secretly-made excerpts of her all-too-candid letters to correspondents abroad, which were bursting with abuse from the mistress, and read them with relish in foreign courts. Liselotte was warned to change her attitude towards Madame de Maintenon, but the harmony between the two women didn't last very long either, and Liselotte was "more tolerated than loved" after initial benevolence. Except on official occasions, she was only rarely admitted to the King's inner circle. She was punished with contempt above all by Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Monsieur's granddaughter from his first marriage and granddaughter-in-law of Louis XIV, who was a spoiled child, but an outspoken favorite of both the monarch and his mistress.