Royal madam! I will appear at to-morrow's trial! Your Grace is startled; deeming it a resolve as strange as contradictory.

Ask not the wherefore, gracious Sovereign: it is fixed unalterably.

I will obey his Grace's summons.

Its unexpected suddenness startled me at first; but it is over.

Oh, madam," she continued--tone, look, and manner becoming again those of the agitated suppliant, and she sunk once more at Isabella's feet: "In my wild agony I have forgotten the respect and deference due from a subject to her Sovereign; I have poured forth my misery, seemingly as regardless of kindness, as insensible to the wide distance between us.