That is all." "No, no, Jane; these thoughts have ever been with me.

They have attended me ever since the king selected me for his wife." "And why, then, did you not refuse him ?" asked Lady Jane.

"Why did you not say 'no' to the king's suit ?" "Why did I not do it, ask you?
Ah, Jane, are you such a stranger at this court as not to know, then, that one must either fulfil the king's behests or die?
My God, they envy me! They call me the greatest and most potent woman of England.

They know not that I am poorer and more powerless than the beggar of the street, who at least has the power to refuse whom she will.

I could not refuse.