But woe be to him if it is he! Then it will be I who accuses him to the king; and, by God! his head shall fall! Now away to the king!" Just as he entered the king's anteroom, the door of the cabinet opened, and the Duchess of Richmond, accompanied by Earl Douglas, walked out.
Lady Jane and Gardiner were standing, as if by accident, near the door.
"Well, have we attained our end there also ?" asked Gardiner.
"We have attained it," said Earl Douglas.

"The duchess has accused her brother of a liaison with the queen.

She has deposed that he sometimes leaves the palace by night, and does not return to it before morning.
She has declared that for four nights she herself dogged her brother and saw him as he entered the wing of the castle occupied by the queen; and one of the queen's maids has communicated to the duchess that the queen was not in her room on that night." "And the king listened to the accusation, and did not throttle you in his wrath!" "He is just in that dull state of rage in which the lava that the crater will afterward pour forth, is just prepared.

As yet all is quiet, but be sure there will be an eruption, and the stream of red-hot lava will busy those who have dared excite the god Vulcan." "And does he know about the rosette ?" asked Lady Jane.
"He knows everything.

And until that moment he will allow no one to suspect his wrath and fury.