The Queen called my mother into her train.

But it was in no wise for our good.

At Court my mother pined away--and so she died in durance." "Wherefore in durance ?" "To what she saw she would not shut her eyes; to what she heard she would not close her soul; what was required of her she would not do." "She would not obey the Queen ?" "She could not obey those whom the Queen favoured.

Then the tyranny that broke her heart--" The Queen interrupted her.
"In very truth, but 'tis not in France alone that Queen's favourites grasp the sceptre and speak the word.

Hath a Queen a thousand eyes--can she know truth where most dissemble ?" "There was a man--he could not know there was one true woman there, who for her daughter's sake, for her desired advancement, and because she was cousin of Passy, who urged it, lived that starved life; this man, this prince, drew round her feet snares, set pit-falls for her while my father was sent upon a mission.