"How will they be satisfied, if I acquit Stanley from Donna Marie's evidence, and that evidence be kept from them ?" "Is not the word of their Sovereign enough?
If Isabella say so it is, what noble of Castile would disgrace himself or her by a doubt as to its truth ?" replied the Queen proudly.

"Let me clearly understand all your Grace requires, and leave the rest to me.

If Marie corroborates Garcia's words, why, on his evidence sentence may be pronounced without her appearance in it at all; but if she deny in the smallest tittle his report, in my presence they shall confront each other, and fear not the truth shall be elicited, and, if possible, Stanley saved.
I may be deceived, and Marie not refuse to appear as witness against him; if so, there needs not my interference.

I would but spare her increase of pain, and bid her desolate heart cling to me as her mother and her friend.

When my subjects look upon me thus, my husband, then, and then only is Isabella what she would be." "And do they not already thus regard thee, my own Isabel ?" replied the King, gazing with actual reverence upon her; "and as such, will future ages reverence thy name.