He was not killed with the sword, but pricked to death with pins!" "Did you not say, John, that you had travelled this way once before ?" "Yes, queen, and I did it to bid farewell to the noblest of men, and the truest of friends, Thomas More! I begged and besought Cromwell so long that he had compassion on my anguish, and allowed me to go through this passage to Thomas More, that I might at least receive the blessing and last kiss of affection of this saint.

Ah, queen, speak no more of it to me! From that day I became a fool; for I saw it was not worth the trouble to be an honest man, when such men as More are executed as criminals.

Come, queen, let us go on!" "Yes, on, John!" said she, rising.

"But do you know then whither we are going ?" "Ah, queen, do I not then know you?
and did I not tell you that Anne Askew is to be stretched upon the rack to-morrow, unless she recant ?" "I see that you have understood me," said she, giving him a friendly nod.

"Yes, I am going to Anne Askew." "But how will you, without being seen and discovered, find out her cell ?" "John, even the unhappy have friends.