Ten Years Later Chapter 21 - Baisemeaux de Montlezun

In which Athos and D’Artagnan contemplate the brewing enmity between Raoul and De Wardes, while Athos wrestles with his weary disillusionment toward courtly life and resolves to return to Blois; meanwhile, D’Artagnan encounters the troubled Governor Baisemeaux de Montlezun, who confides his desperate financial plight involving debts secured by the mysterious Aramis. Between moonlit strolls and guarded confidences, the threads of loyalty, honour, and hardship subtly intertwine under the bustling yet deceptive social mask of Paris.