Lady Feverel, when she first entered on her duties at Raynham, was jealous of her husband's friend.
By degrees she tolerated him.

In time he touched his guitar in her chamber, and they played Rizzio and Mary together.
"For I am not the first who found The name of Mary fatal!" says a subsequent sentimental alliterative love-poem of Diaper's.
Such was the outline of the story.

But the baronet could fill it up.

He had opened his soul to these two.

He had been noble Love to the one, and to the other perfect Friendship.