Pushing in amid the gay crowd, I seemed almost at once to find myself right in front of the throne.
"I saw the Queen of Beauty, in cloth of gold.

I saw the little maiden and the pages in attendance.

I saw Humphry, proud husband and father, beside them.

All this I saw, which I had come to see.

But--the face of Humphry's Countess was not thy face! In that moment I knew that, for seven long years, I had been fooled! "I started on a frenzied quest after the truth, and news of thee.
"Thy sister Eleanor had died the year before.