The idolatress merely sneered, and said "it was but a common thing." Such a woman was incorrigible.

Mary of Guise is always blamed for endangering Scotland in the interests of her family, the Guises of the House of Lorraine.

In fact, so far as she tried to make Scotland a province of France, she was serving the ambition of Henri II.

It could not be foreseen, in 1555, that Henri II.

would be slain in 1559, leaving the two kingdoms in the hands of Francis II.