She must atone for having dared to write to me.

They worked matters with you so that she was put to the rack.

But when my husband gave way to their urging, yet the noble king remained still awake in him.

'Go,' said he, 'rack her and kill her; but see first whether she will not recant.'" Henry looked astonished into her noble and defiant face.

"Do you know that ?" asked he.