The advice that the Emperor's love should take her own waiting maid also came from her.
She knew the value, amid new circumstances, of a person long known and trusted.

The idea that Barbara would take her own maid with her rested, it is true, on the supposition that so well-dressed a young lady, who belonged to an ancient family, must as surely possess such a person as eyes and hands.
Barbara had just induced Frau Lerch to accompany her to Prebrunn.

The old woman's opposition had only been intended to extort more favourable terms.

She knew nothing of the regent's arrangements.
Queen Mary was grateful to Charles for so readily restoring the useful Sir Wolf Hartschwert, and when the latter presented himself he was received even more graciously than usual.
She had some work ready for him.

A letter in relation to the betrothal of her nieces, the daughters of King Ferdinand, was to be sent to the Imperial Councillor Schonberg at Vienna.