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'How do you know so much about Mary?'
'I did an essay about her in my last year at school.'
'And didn't like her, I take it'
'Didn't like what I found out about her.'
'You don't think her tragic, then.'
'Oh, yes, very. But not tragic in any of the ways that popular belief makes her tragic. Her tragedy was that she was born a Queen with the outlook of a suburban housewife. Scoring off Mrs Tudor in the next street is harmless and amusing; it may lead you into unwarrantable indulgence in hire-purchase, but it affects only yourself. When you use the same technique on kingdoms the result is disastrous. If you are willing to put a country of ten million people in pawn in order to score off a royal rival, then you end by being a friendless failure.' He lay thinking about it for a little. 'She would have been a wild success as a mistress at a girls' school.'
'Beast!'
'I meant it nicely. The staff would have liked her, and all the little girls would have adored her. That is what I meant about her being tragic.'
'Ah well. No casket letters, it seems. What else is there? The Man In The Iron Mask.'
'I can't remember who that was, but I couldn't be interested in a
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