There, take this key; and if you at midnight slip through the garden to the tower over yonder, this key will open to you the door of the same, and you can then without hesitation mount the spiral staircase and open the door which is opposite the staircase.

Behind that you will find the fortune which you have forged for yourself, sir blacksmith, and which will bid you welcome with warm lips and soft arms.

And so commending you to God, I must hasten home to think over the comedy which the king has commanded me to write." "But you do not so much as tell me from whom this message comes ?" said Earl Sudley, retaining him.

"You invite me to a meeting and give me a key, and I know not who will await me there in that tower." "Oh, you do not know?
There is then more than one who might await you there?
Well, then, it is the youngest and smallest of the two doves who sends you the key." "Princess Elizabeth ?" "You have named her, not I!" said John Heywood, as he disengaged himself from the earl's grasp and hurried across the courtyard to betake himself to his lodgings.
Thomas Seymour watched him with a scowl, and then slowly directed his eyes to the key that Heywood had given him.
"The princess then awaits me," whispered he, softly.

"Ah, who can read it in the stars?
who can know whither the crown will roll when it tumbles from King Henry's head?
I love Catharine, but I love ambition still more; and if it is demanded, to ambition must I sacrifice my heart.".