"I know you love me," Porthos assures, never having doubted that. "And I know I'm important. I suppose I didn't realize how important," he says, because the business with the baby and the Queen has left a few seedlings of doubt in his mind, accompanied by the fact that Aramis left him at home for the monastery. "Sometimes, I think we're utterly insufferable," he says with a bright smirk.

"I only wish Treville were here to be irritated by it."