"Yes, she is lost, for we are her inexorable and ever-vigilant enemies.

But I deem it not altogether prudent to utter words like these in the queen's drawing-room.

Let us therefore choose a more favorable hour.

Besides, your highness, you must betake yourself to the grand reception-hall, where the whole court is already assembled, and now only awaits the king to go in formal procession for the young queen, and conduct her to the balcony.

Let us go, then." Gardiner nodded in silence, and betook himself to the reception-hall.
Earl Douglas with his daughter followed him.