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I had to coax it of Father. He said my old tawny satin would do. The one I had when Aunt Margaret came from Burgundy to visit us. That is the worst of having a father who notices what women wear. He knows too much about one's wardrobe. Did you hear that the Dauphin bas jilted me? Father is in a pet, but I am so happy I lighted ten candies to St Catherine. It took all I had left of my allowance. I don't want to leave England. I want never to leave England ever. Can you arrange that for me, grandmother?'
Cicely smiled and said that she would try.
'Old Ankaret, who tells fortunes, says that I am to be a Queen. But since there is no prince to marry me I do not sec how that may be.' She paused, and added it in a smaller voice: 'She said Queen of England. But I expect she was just a little tipsy. She is very fond of hippocras.'
It was unfair, not to say inartistic, of Miss Payne-Ellis to hint at Elizabeth's future as the wife of Henry VII if as author she was not prepared to face the unpleasantness that lay between. To presuppose in her readers a know ledge of Elizabeth's manage to the first Tudor king, was also to presuppose their awareness of her brothers' murder. So that a dark reminding shadow fell across story.
But on the whole, Grant thought, she had made a good enough job of the story, judging by what he had read of h. He might even go back sometime and read the bits lie bad skipped.
7
GRANT had switched off his bedside light that night, and was half asleep, when a voice in his mind said: 'But Thomas More was Henry the Eighth.'
This brought him wide awake. He flicked the light on again.
What the voice had meant, of course, was not that Thomas More and Hen
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