CHAPTER XXII 

PATERNAL ANXIETY 

M. le Duc d'Aumont, Prime Minister of His Majesty King Louis XV of France, was exceedingly perturbed. He had just had two separate interviews, each of half an hour's duration, and he was now busy trying to dissociate what his daughter had told him in the first interview, from that which M. de Stainville had imparted to him in the second. And he was not succeeding. 

The two sets of statements seemed inextricably linked together. 

Lydie, certainly had been very strange and agitated in her manner, totally unlike herself: but this mood of course, though so very unusual in her, did not astonish M. le Duc so much, once he realized its cause. 

It was the cause which was so singularly upsetting. 

Milor Eglinton, his son-in-law, had sent in his resignation as Comptroller-General of Finance, and this without giving any reason for so sudden and decisive a step. At any rate Lydie herself professed to be ignorant of milor's motives for this extraordinary line of action as she was of his future purpose. All she knew--or all that she cared to tell her father--was that her husband had avowedly the intention of deserting her: he meant to quit Versailles immediately, thus vacating his post without a moment's notice, and leaving his wife, whom he had allowed to conduct all State affairs for him for over a year, to extricate herself, out of a tangle of work and an anomalous position, as best she might. 

The only suggestion which milor had cared to put forward, with regard to her future, was that he was about to make her a free gift of his château and lands of Vincennes, the yearly revenues of which were close upon a million livres. This gift she desired not to accept. 

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. M. le Duc d'Aumont
2. His Majesty King Louis XV of France
3. Two
4. 30 minutes each
5. two sets of statements
6. no
7. Milor Eglinton
8. his daughter
9. Comptroller-General of Finance
10. no
11. yes
12. no
13. no
14. his wife
15. for over a year
16. yes
17. Milor Eglinton
18. his château and lands of Vincennes
19. no
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. who was prime minister?
2. to who?
3. how many interviews did he have?
4. how long?
5. how many statements?
6. was lydie acting normal?
7. who was his son in law?
8. who told him something during the first interveiw?
9. what was his son in laws occupation?
10. is he still in that occupation?
11. was lydie married?
12. did he give reason for his quitting?
13. did his son in law take his wife?
14. who conducted the affairs?
15. for how long?
16. did she receive a gift?
17. from who
18. of what?
19. did she want this gift?
20. was lydie behavior shocking to anyone?