"I think..."
Queen Mary had not yet thought of how to respond when the nurse beside the sickbed took the thermometer out of Louis XVI's mouth and turned to hand it to the imperial physician.
The nobles in the room immediately gathered around, and the closest, Count of Artuwa, read the thermometer's reading: "Forty degrees Celsius... Jesus! This, what should we do?"
Queen Mary originally wanted to say, "His Majesty will surely make it to Brittany," but at this moment, she was also somewhat dumbfounded, as if she had gone a bit overboard with the arrangements.
She had only thought that the nobles would prevent the King from leaving Paris, so she tried to make her husband's "illness" a bit more severe, but obviously, no one with a fever of 40 degrees should travel six to seven hundred kilometers...
