Like Knox, he was insensible to the charms of Mary Stuart, and that is a deficiency hard to forgive in a man.

Yet who can deny that Elizabeth only did to Mary as Mary would have done to her?
The morality of the Guises was as much a part of Mary as her scholarship, her grace, her profound statecraft, the courage which a voluptuous life never imparted.

Froude was not thinking of her, or of any woman.

He was thinking of England.

Between the fall of Wolsey and the defeat of the Armada was decided the great question whether England should be Catholic or Protestant, bond or free.