So much for her and him; for us less needs be said.

It was not ours to weigh her actions; we served her; him we had served.

She was our queen; we bore Heaven a grudge that he was not our king.

The worst of what befell was not of our own planning, no, nor of our hoping.

It came a thunderbolt from the hand of Rupert, flung carelessly between a curse and a laugh; its coming entangled us more tightly in the net of circumstances.
Then there arose in us that strange and overpowering desire of which I must tell later, filling us with a zeal to accomplish our purpose, and to force Mr.Rassendyll himself into the way we chose.