2/9 They met him and his cousin, Captain Odo Wolfburgh, at Oban, and again on the ramparts of Stirling Castle, and the very day that they arrived in Edinburgh, there, in Holyrood, in Queen Mary's chamber, stood the pursy little man, curling his mustache before her mirror. "His Highness is becoming monotonous!" he grumbled. "These foreigners never know when they are superfluous in society." "Is he superfluous ?" Jean glanced to the corner where the prince and Lucy were eagerly searching for the blood of Rizzio upon the steps. "I wished to show you and Miss Dunbar a live prince, and I did it. |