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At three in the afternoon Mdlle. de Taverney came out of her rooms dressed to perform her duty as reader to the princess.
On reaching the Trianon Summerhouse she was told that her mistress was in the grounds with her architect and head-gardener. In the upper story could be heard the whizz of the turning-lathe with which the Dauphin was busy making a safety lock for a chest which he thought a great deal of.