"That can never be!" "How! What do you say ?" asked she in astonishment.
"I say that Cranmer will never be so insane, nay, so criminal, as to fulfil your wish.

I say that you can never be my wife." She looked him full and square in the face.

"Have you not then told me that you loved me ?" asked she.

"Have I not sworn to you that I loved you in return?
Must we then not be married, in order to sanctify the union of our hearts ?" Seymour sank his eyes to the ground before her pure innocent look, and blushed for shame.

She did not understand this blush; because he was silent, she deemed him convinced.
"Come," said she, "come; Cranmer is waiting for us!" He again raised his eyes and looked at her in amazement, "Do you not see, then, this is all only a dream that can never become reality?
Do you not feel that this precious fantasy of your great and noble heart will never be realized?
How! are you then so little acquainted with your father as not to know that he would destroy us both if we should dare to set at naught his paternal and his royal authority?
Your birth would not secure you from his destroying fury, for you well know he is unyielding and reckless in his wrath; and the voice of consanguinity sounds not so loud in him that it would not be drowned by the thunder of his wrath.
Poor child, you have learned that already! Remember with what cruelty he has already revenged himself on you for the pretended fault of your mother; how he transferred to you his wrath against her.