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Lady Strickland or the good Labadie will explain more to you , but do not speak of this to anyone else . You have leave now , '' she added , as she herself carried the child towards his father 's rooms . The maiden 's heart swelled at the trust reposed in her , and the King 's kind words , and she kept back the sense of anxiety and doubt as to so vague a future . She found Mrs. Labadie lying on her bed awake , but trying to rest between two busy nights , and she was then told that there was to be a flight from the palace of the Queen and Prince at midnight , Mrs. Labadie and Anne alone going with them , though Lord and Lady Powys and Lady Strickland , with the Queen 's Italian ladies , would meet them on board the yacht which was waiting at Gravesend . The nurse advised Anne to put a few necessary equipments into a knapsack bound under a cloak , and to leave other garments with her own in charge of Mr. Labadie , who would despatch them with those of the suite , and would follow in another day with the King . Doubt or refusal there could of course be none in such circumstances , and a high-spirited girl like Anne could not but feel a thrill of heart at selection for such confidential and signal service at her age , scarcely seventeen . Her one wish was to write to her uncle what had become of her .