"But in return I swear that I will honor and esteem you as my queen and mistress.

I swear to you that you shall never find a more obedient subject, a more unselfish counsellor, a more faithful husband, a braver champion, than I will be.
'My life for my queen, my entire heart for my beloved'; this henceforth shall be my motto, and may I be disowned and despised by God and by you, if ever I violate this oath." "Amen!" said Catharine, with a bewitching smile.
Then both were silent.

It was that silence which only love and happiness knows--that silence which is so rich in thoughts and feelings, and therefore so poor in words! The wind rustled whisperingly in the trees, among whose dark branches here and there a bird's warbling or flute-like notes resounded.

The sun threw his emerald light over the soft velvety carpet of the ground, which, rising and falling in gentle, undulating lines, formed lovely little hollows and hillocks, on which now and then was seen here and there the slender and stately figure of a hart, or a roe, that, looking around searchingly with his bright eyes, started back frightened into the thicket on observing these two human figures and the group of horses encamped there.
Suddenly this quiet was interrupted by the loud sound of the hunter's horn, and in the distance were heard confused cries and shouts, which were echoed by the dense forest and repeated in a thousand tones.
With a sigh the queen raised her head from the earl's shoulder.
The dream was at an end; the angel came with flaming sword to drive her from paradise.
For she was no longer worthy of paradise.

The fatal word had been spoken, and while it brought her love, it had perjured her.
Henry's wife, his by her vow taken before the altar, had betrothed herself to another, and given him the love that she owed her husband.
"It is passed," said he, mournfully.