"A nice duenna she would be, forsooth, if she were with a woman who needed watching.

She could be hoodwinked as it pleased me a dozen times a day.
It is I who am her guard, not she mine! But a beauty must drag some spy about with her, it seems, and she I can make to obey me like a spaniel.
We can afford no better, and she is well born, and since I bought her the purple paduasoy and the new lappets she has looked well enough to serve." "Dunstanwolde need not fear for thee now," said Sir Jeoffry.

"Thou art a clever and foreseeing wench, Clo." "Dunstanwolde nor any man!" she answered.

"There will be no gossip of me.

It is Anne and Barbara thou must look to, Dad, lest their plain faces lead them to show soft hearts.