"Once again, after years of misery and humiliation, I can hope." "We had best retire, madam," Sir Thomas Tresham said.

"He will speak more freely to your Majesty if there are no witnesses.

Come, Gervaise, it is time that you practised your exercises." And Sir Thomas, with his wife and child, quitted the room, leaving Queen Margaret with her son to meet the man who had been the bitterest foe of her House, the author of her direst misfortunes.
For two hours the Earl of Warwick was closeted with the queen; then he took horse and rode away.

As soon as he did so, a servant informed Sir Thomas and his wife that the queen desired their presence.

Margaret was standing radiant when they entered.
"Congratulate me, my friends," she said.