Now, then, I will give you a proof of my confidence.

Await me in the green summer-house at twelve o'clock to-night.

You must be my attendant on a dangerous excursion.

Have you courage, John ?" "Courage to lay down my life for you, queen!" "Come, then, but bring your weapon with you." "At your command! and is that your only order for to-day ?" "That is all, John! only," added she, with hesitation and a slight blush, "only, if you perchance meet Earl Sudley, you may say to him that I charged you to greet him in my name." "Oh!" sighed John Hey wood, sadly.
"He has to-day saved my life, John," said she, as if excusing herself.
"It becomes me well, then, to be grateful to him." And giving him a friendly nod, she stepped into the porch of the castle.
"Now let anybody say again, that chance is not the most mischievous and spiteful of all devils!" muttered John Heywood.

"This devil, chance, throws in the queen's way the very person she ought most to avoid; and she must be, as in duty bound, very grateful to a lover.