I have nothing to do with you; and you are even too insignificant and too contemptible for my anger.

But I tell you, you have played a hazardous game, and you will lose.

You courted a queen and a princess, and you will gain neither of them: not the one, for she despises you; not the other, for she ascends the scaffold!" With a wild laugh she was hurrying to the door, but Catharine with a strong hand held her back and compelled her to remain.

"What are you going to do ?" asked she, with perfect calmness and composure.
"What am I going to do ?" asked Elizabeth, her eyes flashing like those of a lioness.

"You ask me what I will do?
I will go to my father, and tell him what I have here witnessed! He will listen to me; and his tongue will still have strength enough to pronounce your sentence of death! Oh, my mother died on the scaffold, and yet she was innocent.