He knows the Comte de Rochefort, had when he had been the Comte de la Fère, had seen him at tedious events, but then the man had gone and gotten himself arrested in a Spanish prison. Of course, the true trouble with the man had always been his personality, but Athos had not seen fit to judge at the time.

"She is safe here," Athos can assure him that much. "I have been back and forth from Paris many times, but no one has ever been capable of following me."