I must wake her." She bent down and pressed a kiss on the young girl's forehead.

"Anne, awake; I am here! I will save you and set you free.

Anne, Anne, awake!" She slowly raised her large, brilliant eyes, and nodded a salutation to Catharine.
"Catharine Parr!" said she, with a smile.

"I expected only a letter from you; and have you come yourself ?" "The guards have been dismissed, and the turnkeys changed, Anne; for our correspondence had been discovered." "Ah, you will write to me no more in future! And yet your letters were my only comfort," sighed Anne Askew.

"But that also is well; and perhaps it will only make the path that I have to tread still easier.