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When she found that she was being prevented from getting news of the boys.'
'She may never have known that they were missing. He may just have said: "It is my wish that you should not see them. I think you are a bad influence on them: you who came out of sanctuary and let your daughters go to that man's parties!"'
'Yes, that's so, of course. He didn't have to wait until she actually became suspicious. The whole thing might have been one move. "You're a bad woman, and a bad mother; I am sending you into a convent to save your soul and your children from the contamination of your presence."'
'Yes. And where the rest of England were concerned, he was as safe as any murderer ever could be. After his happy thought about the "treason" accusation, no one was going to stick his neck out by inquiring particularly about the boys' health. Everyone must have been walking on eggs as it was. No one knowing what Henry might think of next to make into a retrospective offence that would send their lives into limbo and their estates into Henry's kitty. No, it was no time to be overcurious about anything that didn't directly concern oneself. Not that it would be easy, in any case, to satisfy' one's curiosity.'
'With the boys living at the Tower, you mean.'
'With the boys living in a Tower officialled by Henry's men. There was none of Richard's get-together live-and-let-live attitude about Henry. No York-Lancaster alliance for Henry. The people at the Tower
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