"Then ask his Excellency when next you see him, Where is Rozel?
But take good counsel and keep your ignorance from the Queen," he added.

"She has no love for stupids." "You say you are butler to the Queen?
Whence came your commission ?" said the Lord Chamberlain, smiling now; for Lempriere's words and ways were of some simple world where odd folk lived, and his boyish vanity disarmed anger.
"By royal warrant and heritage.

And of all of the Jersey Isle, I only may have dove-totes, which is the everlasting thorn in the side of De Carteret of St.Ouen's.

Now will you let me in, my lord ?" he said, all in a breath.
At a stir behind him the Lord Chamberlain turned, and with a horrified exclamation hurried away, for the procession from the Queen's apartments had already entered the presence-chamber: gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, in brave attire, with bare heads and sumptuous calves.

The Lord Chamberlain had scarce got to his place when the Chancellor, bearing the seals in a red silk purse, entered, flanked by two gorgeous folk with the royal sceptre and the sword of state in a red scabbard, all flourished with fleur-de-lis.