For the devil is always hungry for noble human souls; and to him who catches one for him he gives indulgence for his sins for an hour.

Therefore Gardiner catches so many souls; for since he sins every hour, every hour he needs indulgence." "You are very spiteful to-day, John Heywood," said the queen, smiling, while the king fixed his eyes on the ground, thoughtful and musing.
John Heywood's words had touched the sore place of his heart, and, in spite of himself, filled his suspicious soul with new doubts.
He mistrusted not merely the accused, but the accusers also; and if he punished the one as criminals, he would have willingly punished the others as informants.
He asked himself: "What aim had Earl Douglas and Gardiner in accusing the queen; and why had they startled him out of his quiet and confidence ?" At that moment, when he looked on his beautiful wife, who sat by him in such serene tranquillity, unembarrassed and smiling, he felt a deep anger fill his heart, not against Catharine, but against Jane, who accused her.

She was so lovely and beautiful! Why did they envy him her?
Why did they not leave him in his sweet delusion?
But perhaps she was not guilty.

No, she was not.

The eye of a culprit is not thus bright and clear.